Process of Science
Characteristics of Life
Microscopes
Scientific Method
Vocabulary
100

The tree was 23 feet tall.

What is Quantitative Data?

100

The rabbit ate the grass.

What is living things need energy?

100

The details of the surface of a human hair.

What is a scanning electron microscope?

100

Anpossible, testable explanation for observations

What is a hypothesis?

100

Organisms that depend on other organisms for food.

What is a heterotroph?

200

The tree is large.

What is qualitative data?

200

The sun supplies this to all organisms on earth.

What is energy?

200

You look through this piece on a microscope.

What is an eyepiece? (or ocular)

200

A factor that is manipulated by the experimenter?

What is an independent variable?

200

Organisms that are able to make their own food.

What is an autotroph?

300

Since the bears are in the water, they are fishing.

What is an inference?

300

The hydra produced an identical polyp that broke off.

What is asexual reproduction?

300

A microscope that shines light through a specimen using two lenses

What is a compound light microscope?

300

A group in an experiment that experiences no manipulation.

What is a control group?

300

Process by which green plants and some other organisms use energy from the sun and simple chemicals to make their own food.

What is photosynthesis?

400

The coffee mug holds 10 ounces.

What is quantitative data?

400

The maintenance of stable internal conditions.

What is homeostasis?

400

This piece supports the body and stage and is attached to the base.

What is the arm?

400

logical interpretation based on prior knowledge, experience, or evidence.

What is an inference?

400

an abrupt and marked change in the DNA of an organism compared to that of its parents

What is a mutation?

500

The mouse had green eyes.

What is qualitative data?

500

single celled organisms

What is unicellular?

500

A microscope that transmits a beam of electrons through a thinly sliced specimen.

What is a transmission electron microscope?

500

A description of a relationship or principle.

What is a scientific law?

500

living creatures that are too small to see with the naked eye

What is a microorganism?