Scientific Method
Scientific Attitudes and Big Ideas
Characteristics of Living Things
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The work of scientists usually begins with this step.
What is careful observations
100
What is an organized way of gathering and analyzing evidence about the natural world?
Science
100
What is the variable that is deliberately changed?
Independent Variable
100
An important goal of all scientists is to use this to learn about the natural world.
What is observation
100

All things are connected together in a "living planet" called the

What is biosphere

200

Information gathered from watching termites move. 

What is data

200
The study of life.
Biology
200
Any signal to which an organism responds to
A stimulus
200

Maintaining a relatively stable internal environment even when the external environment changes.

Homeostasis

200

In science, we use this system of measurement.

What is metric.

300
Based on your observations, you suggest that grass seed watered with fertilizer will germinate faster than grass seed watered with plain water. This is called
What is a hypothesis
300
The idea that all living things share a common ancestor describes which Big Idea in biology?
What is evolution
300
What characteristic of life is illustrated in a food web?
What is all living things need material and energy
300

For a hypothesis to be considered good, you have to be able to do this.

What is test it

300

A combination of chemical reactions through which an organism breaks down or builds up materials as it carries out its life processes is known as this.

What is metabolism

400
In a controlled experiment it is important for a scientist to isolate and test a single one of these.
What is a variable
400
Charles Darwin's idea about change over time has been well tested by other scientists and is now considered to be this.
What is a theory
400
Most plants and animals exhibit this type of reproduction.
What is sexual
400

Scientists who have strong moral beliefs about what they are studying may exhibit this when interpreting their results.

What is bias

400

The smallest units of living things that are considered alive are ___

What are cells

500
What is one goal of science?
Provide natural explanations for events of natural world, make predictions, understand patterns in nature
500
What is a control group?
the group that is exposed to the same conditions as the experimental group except for one independent variable
500

These are the smallest units studied by biologists

What are cells

500

What is the purpose of the microscope's diaphragm?

What is to adjust the light source.

500

The measured variable in an experiment.

Dependent