Mystery 1
The process by which green plants and some other organisms use the energy of sunlight and simple chemicals to produce their own food.
What is Photosynthesis?
Organisms that eat only organisms other than plants
What are Carnivores?
Microscope to use when viewing the small organisms in a drop of water.
What is a compound light microscope?
A suggested, testable answer to a well-defined scientific question or a testable explanation of observations.
What is a Hypothesis?
Produce offspring that are identical to the parents. How do these organisms reproduce?
What is asexually?
Special structures that allow living organisms to sense the conditions of their internal or external environment.
What are Receptors?
Organisms that eat both plants and other organisms.
What are Omnivores?
The main source of energy on earth comes from this.
What is the sun?
Organisms that are internally warmed.
What is an Endotherm?
Microscope to use to see the details of the surface of a a piece of thread.
What is a scanning electron microscope or SEM?
Uses energy to produce large chemicals for life.
What is Anabolism?
Organisms that eat only plants.
What are Herbivores?
The chemical solution changed from orange to green during the experiment. This is an example of what type of data?
What is qualitative?
This is the maintenance of a stable internal condition.
What is Homeostasis?
Explains the how and why natural processes occur based on repeatable tests and supported by evidence
What is a Scientific Theory?
Breaks down chemicals to produce energy
What is Catabolism?
Organisms that produce their own food.
What are Autotrophs?
This type of reproduction occurs when organisms that produce genetically different offspring
What is sexual reproduction?
A logical interpretation based on prior knowledge, experience or evidence.
What is an Inference?
Produce offspring with subtle differences as compared to the parents. How do these organisms reproduce?
What is sexually?
To gather data and test a hypothesis, scientists use what?
What is the Scientific Method?
Organisms that depend on other organisms for their food (don't make their own food)
What are Heterotrophs?
An abrupt and marked change in the DNA of an organism compared to that of its parents.
What is a mutation?
The microscope to use when viewing the detailed structures inside a muscle cell.
What is a transmission electron microscope or TEM?
What are, composed of cells, grow and develop, require energy to power activities (metabolism), maintain a stable internal environment (homeostasis), sense and respond to their environment, and contain hereditary information in their DNA for reproduction?
Converts energy and matter from outside sources.
What is Metabolism?
Logical interpretations based on prior knowledge, experience, or evidence.
What is inference?
This type of observation looks at numbers such as counting or measuring.
What is Quantitative?
Explains what happens in nature under certain conditions
The main reason the law of spontaneous generation survived for so many years.
What are flawed experiments?