Scientific Method
Characteristics of Living Things
Viruses
Motion
Vocabulary
100

Homer notices that his shower is covered in a strange green slime. His friend Barney tells him that coconut juice will get rid of the green slime. Homer decides to check this out by spraying half of the shower with coconut juice. He sprays the other half of the shower with water. After 3 days of "treatment" there is no change in the appearance of the green slime on either side of the shower. 

The side sprayed with water is the ______?

what is control group?

100

DNA gradually changing over several generations

What is evolve and adapt?

100

name three viruses that affect human beings

What are ebola, smallpox, flu, common cold, HIV, polio?

NOT STREP

100
an object used to judge the change in position of another object

what is a reference point?

100

word part meaning "together"

-syn

200

Homer notices that his shower is covered in a strange green slime. His friend Barney tells him that coconut juice will get rid of the green slime. Homer decides to check this out by spraying half of the shower with coconut juice. He sprays the other half of the shower with water. After 3 days of "treatment" there is no change in the appearance of the green slime on either side of the shower. 

What are 2 things Homer should keep constant in this experiment?

what are # of sprays, # of days treated, beginning slime amount, amount of liquid per spray, etc?

200

A salt water fish struggling to breath in a fresh water tank

What is responding to stimuli/environment?

200

the unit used to measure the size of a virus

what is a nanometer?

200

what is the speed of a man eating gerbil who travels 16 meters on his gerbil wheel in 4 minutes?

16/4 = 4 m/min

200

loving

What is -phil?

300

Homer notices that his shower is covered in a strange green slime. His friend Barney tells him that coconut juice will get rid of the green slime. Homer decides to check this out by spraying half of the shower with coconut juice. He sprays the other half of the shower with water. After 3 days of "treatment" there is no change in the appearance of the green slime on either side of the shower. 


What is the independent variable?

what is the type of spray?  water vs. coconut juice
300

A venus fly trap eating a dung beetle

what is obtain and use energy?

300

attach, inject, assemble, emerge

what are the steps of the lytic cycle?

300

what is the total time traveled by the object (use graph on board)

5.5 hours

300

different, other

what is "hetero-"?

400

Homer notices that his shower is covered in a strange green slime. His friend Barney tells him that coconut juice will get rid of the green slime. Homer decides to check this out by spraying half of the shower with coconut juice. He sprays the other half of the shower with water. After 3 days of "treatment" there is no change in the appearance of the green slime on either side of the shower. 

What is the dependent variable?

what is amount of slime after three days?

400

2 wombats have a litter of 4 baby wombats

what is reproduction?

400

other than bacteriophage, the three main shapes of viruses are....

what are polyhedral, spherical, and cylindrical?

400

the total distance traveled (use graph on board)

16 miles

400

all (2 answers)

what is "pan-" and "omni-"?

500

Homer notices that his shower is covered in a strange green slime. His friend Barney tells him that coconut juice will get rid of the green slime. Homer decides to check this out by spraying half of the shower with coconut juice. He sprays the other half of the shower with water. After 3 days of "treatment" there is no change in the appearance of the green slime on either side of the shower. 

Make a correctly stated hypothesis to match this experiment.

If the shower is sprayed with coconut juice, then the amount of slime will decrease because.... (coconut is antimicrobial?)

500
the two ways in which an autotroph can create its own food

photosynthesis and chemosynthesis

500

the two main structural pieces that make up all viruses are....

What are the capsid and genetic material?

500

the average speed during segment C (use graph on board)

4 mph

500

state, staying

what is "-stasis"?