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Scientific Method
Potpourri
100
This is the study of living organisms.
What is biology?
100
This is what we call an animal that eats both meat and plants.
What is an omnivore?
100
This word means 'an educated guess'.
What is a hypothesis?
100
In what step of the Scientific Method would you gather information to form a hypothesis?
What is in the 2nd step?
100
This is the part of an experiment that stays the same.
What is the control or constant?
200
This is the study of how living things change over time.
What is evolution?
200
This word means 'the inner layer of skin'.
What is endodermis?
200
This word means 'non-living'.
What is abiotic?
200
This is the step in the SM where you would create a graph of data.
What is the 4th step of the Scientific Method?
200
This is the part of an experiment that YOU change.
What is the independent variable?
300
This is the study of heredity.
What is genetics?
300
This word means 'to break down'.
What is decompose?
300
This is an explanation based on a large quantity of evidence, but which we cannot recreate.
What is a theory?
300
In what step of the SM would you state your question?
What is the 1st step of the Scientific Method?
300
This is science that is studied because it will have a specific use for society.
What is applied science?
400
The study of 'small life' is called...
What is microbiology?
400
This word means 'to use energy for growth, repair, and movement'.
What is metabolism?
400
This is the study of plants.
What is botony?
400
This is the third step of the Scientific Method and is much like a recipe.
What is the experiment?
400
This is the resulting change caused by something that you did in an experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
500
This word means 'to make'.
What is synthesis?
500
This word means 'internal balance'.
What is homeostasis?
500
This is the study of the structures of an organism.
What is anatomy?
500
This is the 5th and last step of the SM.
What is the conclusion?
500
This is an explanation that we can support with proof.
What is a law?