Characteristic of Life
Means the Study of Life
What is Biology?
What is a subjective observation?
What is based on an opinion?
What axis does the independent variable belong?
What is the X axis?
What is the Independent Variable looking for?
What is what your are testing?
A series of problem-solving procedures that help scientists conduct experiments!
What is the scientific method?
List at least 3 things biologists do?
What is study the diversity of life, research disease, develop technologies, improve agriculture, and preserve the environment?
What is an objective observation?
What is based on factual data?
What axis does the dependent variable belong?
What is the Y axis?
What is the Dependent Variable looking for?
What is what you are measuring?
To express large numbers conveniently, scientists use a short hand called?
What is scientific notation?
List something living, dead, and non-living!
What are: Living = Any animal or plants, Non - Living = Chair, cloud, River, Shoe, Dead = Stick, log, human?
What is the difference between a law and a theory?
What is a law makes predictions but does not explain why they happen and a theory predicts and also explains why things happen due to scientific evidence?
What is the purpose of the control in an experiment?
What is used as a neutral point of reference for comparison – it allows you to see what changing a variable does by comparing it to not changing anything?
What is the hypothesis?
What is an educated guess or testable explanation of the situation?
A principal that describes the behavior of a natural phenomenon.
What is a scientific law?
Give an example of a creature responding to a stimulus!
What is a dog panting, a shark smelling blood, or pupils dilate in lower light levels?
What is the difference between an observation and an inference?
What is an observation is a direct method of gathering info. in an orderly way and an inference is the process of combining what you know with what you have learned to draw a logical conclusion?
What is the purpose of a constant in an experiment?
What is a factor that remains the same or fixed and does not change?
Give an example of a hypothesis!
What is if I give a plant an unlimited amount of sunlight, then the plant will grow to its largest possible size?
An explanation based on many observations during repeated investigations.
What is a scientific theory?
List the 8 Characteristics of Living Things!
What are:
1.Cells, 2. Displays Organization, 3. Energy, 4. Response to Stimuli, 5. Reproduce, 6. Growth & Development, 7. Adaptation, 8. DNA?
What is the difference between quantitative and qualitative data?
What is quantitative data uses numbers and qualitative data uses verbal expressions?
What are the 6 steps used in the Scientific Method?
What are: 1. Identify the Problem, 2. Research, 3. Form a Hypothesis, 4. Experiment, 5. Analysis/Results, 6. Conclusion?
Give an example of an inference!
What is if you see a bird that is unfamiliar you can at lease use the knowledge you know about birds and figure out what type it is?
Is used in an experiment to show that the results of an experiment are a result of the condition being tested.
What is the control?