The process of natural changes that take place during the life of an organism.
What is development?
100
A body of knowledge based on the study of nature and its physical setting.
What is science?
100
A direct method of gathering information in an orderly way.
What is an observation?
100
The group exposed to the factor being tested.
What is a experimental group?
200
Anything that has or once had any of the characteristics of life.
What is a organism?
200
The production of offspring.
What is reproduction?
200
An explanation of a natural phenomenon supported by many observations and experiments over time.
What is a theory?
200
Combining information from other sources and start making logical conclusions.
What are inferences?
200
The group used for comparison.
What is the control group?
300
Being arranged in an orderly way.
What is organization?
300
A process in which the procedures used during an experiment and the results are evaluated by scientists who are in the same field or are doing similar research.
What is peer review?
300
Methods that scientists in any field used combined.
What are scientific methods?
300
The factor that is changed in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
400
A group of organisms that can breed with one another and produce fertile offspring.
What is a species?
400
The regulation of an organism's internal conditions to maintain life.
What is homeostasis?
400
A set of moral principles or values.
What are ethics?
400
A testable explanation of a situation.
What is a hypothesis?
400
Something that results from or depends on changes to the independent variable.
What is the dependent variable?
500
Adds mass to an organism.
What is growth?
500
Any inherited characteristic that results from changes to a species over time.
What is adaptation?
500
Uses units with divisions that are powers of ten. Scientists use this system of measurement.
What is the metric system?
500
The occurrence of accidental or unexpected, but fortunate, results.