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Scientific Method I
Scientific Method II
Science in Context
Characteristics of Life
Big Ideas in Science
100
A structural approach scientist use to answer a question about the natural world.
What is the scientific method?
100
An organized way of collecting, gathering and analyzing evidence about the natural world.
What is science?
100
The ability to think outside the box and approach a problem from a different angle.
What is creativity?
100
Three letters that represent the molecule found in every living organism.
What is DNA?
100
Process that describes how populations change over generations.
What is evolution?
200
This is the scientific explanation for a set of observations.
What is a hypothesis?
200
Numerical information gathered in an experiment.
What is quantitative data?
200
A scientist who may question existing ideas and hypotheses is this.
What is a skeptic?
200
The smallest units considered to be fully alive. Organisms are composed of these.
What are cells?
200
An organism composed of numerous cells which interact and are specialized.
What is a multicellular organism?
300
This is the first step of the scientific method.
What is making an observation?
300
The variable that is manipulated or deliberately changed in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
300
Inspire scientist to address and question concerns that affect our near future (i.e. fuel crisis).
What are practical problems?
300
Something organisms respond to.
What is a stimulus?
300
Gives structure to living organisms and provides them with fuel.
What is matter and energy?
400
Change in temperature, length, time, etc. The variable that is measured in an experiment (responding variable).
What is the dependent variable?
400
When an experiment is not possible, these enable scientist to test a hypothesis.
What are observations?
400
A review of a literature that is conducted by anonymous, independent experts.
What is the peer review?
400
Reproduction without a partner (i.e. single).
What is asexual reproduction?
400
A group of individuals, of one species, in a defined location.
What is a population?
500
The group in an experiment in which all conditions are kept the same, except for one independent variable.
What is a control group?
500
This group receives the treatment.
What is the experimental group?
500
A well tested explanation that unifies a broad range of observations and enables scientists to make accurate predictions.
What is a theory?
500
Process that describes an organisms (relatively) stable internal environments.
What is homeostasis?
500
The relationship between the form of a particular body part and what it does.
What is structure and function?