Science: The Big Picture
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Cell City
Cells at Work
100
This branch of science studies living things, from tiny bacteria to giant whales.
What is Life Science?
100
Information gathered using your senses or scientific tools is called this.
What is an observation?
100
In CER, the “C” stands for this.
What is Claim?
100
According to Cell Theory, all living things are made of one or more of these.
What are cells?
100
This process converts food into usable energy for the cell.
What is cellular respiration?
200
A scientist studies the chemicals in soil and how those chemicals change. Which major branch of science is being used?
What is Physical Science?
200
This word means information is based on unbiased facts rather than feelings.
What is objective?
200
Facts or information that help determine whether a claim is true are called this.
What is Evidence?
200
In our Cell City, this organelle acts like the security gate by controlling what enters and leaves.
What is the cell membrane?
200
This type of transport requires NO cellular energy.
What is passive transport?
300
Put these steps in order: Conclusion, Experiment, Question, Data, Hypothesis.
What is Question → Hypothesis → Experiment → Data → Conclusion?
300
A student says, “The plant is 12 cm tall.” Another says, “The plant grew taller because it got more sunlight.” Which statement is the observation?
What is “The plant is 12 cm tall”?
300
Which one primarily describes what happens in nature: a scientific theory or scientific law?
What is a scientific law?
300
In our Cell City, the factory builds proteins while the power plant provides usable energy. Name BOTH organelles.
What are ribosomes and mitochondria?
300
Water moves across a membrane to help reach balance. Name this specific type of passive transport.
What is osmosis?
400
Francis Bacon is often associated with the Scientific Method. What important change in thinking did he champion?
What is using evidence and observation instead of relying on guesses?
400
A scientist notices that three plants near a window grew taller than three plants farther away. Give a testable hypothesis based on that evidence.
Example: What is “If plants receive more sunlight, then they will grow taller”?
400
A student has excellent evidence supporting a claim but never explains how the evidence supports the claim. Which part of CER is missing?
What is Reasoning?
400
A cell has DNA and ribosomes but does not have a nucleus. Is it most likely prokaryotic or eukaryotic?
What is prokaryotic?
400
A cell needs to move a LARGE amount of material into itself by wrapping its membrane around it. Which transport process should it use?
What is endocytosis?
500
Scientists arrive on a new planet with purple plants, moving rocks, strange soil chemicals, and unusual gravity. Name the three major branches of science they would need and give ONE thing each could investigate.
What are Life Science—plants/living things; Earth Science—rocks/atmosphere/planet; Physical Science—chemicals/gravity/matter/energy?
500
Two scientists observe exactly the same event but develop different hypotheses. How can BOTH scientists still be practicing good science?
What is because observations are objective evidence, while scientists can develop different testable explanations for that evidence?
500
Correct this statement: “Once a hypothesis gets enough evidence, it becomes a theory, and eventually the theory becomes a law.”
What is hypotheses, theories, and laws are different kinds of scientific knowledge; theories explain while laws describe—they do not represent stages of promotion?
500
Cell Theory says cells are the basic units of life and all living things contain cells. What is its THIRD major principle?
What is all cells come from other cells that already exist?
500
Put the energy pathway in order: ATP fuels cell work; food containing carbohydrates is eaten; mitochondria produce ATP; molecules are broken down during cellular respiration.
What is Food → molecules broken down/respiration → mitochondria produce ATP → ATP fuels cell work?