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Scientific Method
Living Things
Science
Metric System
Organization
100
A proposed scientific explanation generated by logical inference.
What is a hypothesis?
100
Reproduction, growth and development, DNA, response to environment.
What are characteristics of living things?
100
He designed an experiment using a flask with a long curved neck.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
100
Liter
What is the basic unit of volume?
100
A group of cells working together.
What is tissue?
200
The process of gathering information about processes in an ordered way.
What is observation?
200
Directions for inheritance.
What is DNA?
200
Investigate and understand the natural world.
What is the goal of science?
200
Centigram
What is 0.01 grams?
200
An individual living thing.
What is an organism?
300
Something that is observed and that changes in response to another factor in an experiment.
What is a dependent variable?
300
The process of maintaining fairly constant internal conditions.
What is homeostasis?
300
In Redi's experiment on spontaneous generation, this was the independent (manipulated) variable.
What was the gauze covering the jars?
300
Decameter
What is ten meters?
300
Population
What is a group of organisms of one type that live in the same area?
400
Theory.
What is a well-tested scientific explanation for a phenomenon?
400
A signal to which an organism responds.
What is a stimulus?
400
A revised version of the metric system.
What is the International System of Units (SI)?
400
100 degrees Celsius
What is the boiling point of water?
400
Ecosystem
What is a community and its nonliving surroundings?
500
An experiment in which only one variable is changed at a time.
What is a controlled experiment?
500
The combination of chemical reactions an organism undergoes to carry out life processes.
What is metabolism?
500
He discovered the first vaccine against anthrax in 1881.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
500
1000 cubic centimeters (cm^3)
What is one liter?
500
The part of Earth that contains all ecosystems.
What is the Biosphere?