The Process of Science & Scientific Skills
Is there a difference between the scientific method and the process of science?
Answer: Yes, the scientific method is a linear list and the process is more open and circular.
Can you be in the Living Lab without an adult?
Answer: No boi
Is water a limited resource? Why or why not?
Answer: Yes, there is not an unlimited supply of water.
How is a trophic pyramid set up?
Answer: Producers, then primary consumers, secondary consumers, and apex consumers.
What is in a plant cell but not an animal cell?
Answer: Chloroplasts.
Write a scientific question about the relationship between weather and hot cocoa sales.
Answer: If the temperature is colder, the hot cocoa sales will increase.
How do you measure the canopy of a tree?
Answer: Hold the tape measure at one end of the canopy, walk to the other side, look up, and measure.
Which is NOT part of the water cycle: evaporation, runoff, fossil fuels, condensation, precipitation?
Answer: Fossil fuels.
How does energy flow through a trophic pyramid?
Answer: Bottom to top, with 10% transferred to each level.
What does a nucleus do?
Answer: It stores DNA.
What is a mind map?
Answer: A mind map is a way to organize your thoughts.
What are the three base units we use in the metric system?
Answer: Liter, gram, meter.
What does it mean to evolve?
Answer: To grow and adapt.
What is a keystone species?
Answer: An organism that holds the ecosystem together.
What is the lens you look through on a microscope?
Answer: The ocular lens.
This part of an investigation states a testable prediction in an “if… then… because…” format.
Answer: What is a hypothesis?
Convert 16.4 grams to kilograms.
Answer: 0.0164 kilograms.
Which is NOT part of the carbon cycle: decomposers, photosynthesis, runoff, dead organisms?
Answer: Runoff.
What is biodiversity?
Answer: The variety of life on Earth.
A sketch of a specimen’s shape and color at 40x is what type of observation?
Answer: What is a qualitative observation?
In a CER conclusion, this component explains why your data supports your claim.
In a CER conclusion, this component explains why your data supports your claim.
Understand the concept of ppm—this unit expresses concentration as “parts per million.”
Answer: What is ppm?
What things play a part in the carbon cycle?
Answer: Plants, animals, fossil fuels.
What is extirpation?
Answer: When a species goes extinct in a certain area.
This point on a cladogram shows where one ancestral lineage splits into two.
Answer: What is a node?