Science Vocab
A method of research where a problem is identified, data is gathered, a hypothesis is made, and then tested with an experiment.
What is the scientific method?
plants, animals, fungi, bacteria
What are biotic factors?
an idea for a law that is written and presented
What is a bill?
all living and nonliving parts of an environment.
What is an ecosystem?
The main author of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The variable that is changed on purpose.
What is the dependent variable?
non-living parts of an ecosystem
What are abiotic factors?
There are 435 members of this chamber of Congress
What is the House of Representatives?
A single living thing.
Examples: One bird, one fish, one tree.
What is an organism?
Rights that cannot be taken away
What are inalienable rights?
The variables that are kept constant during an experiment.
What are controlled variables?
a group of organisms of the same species in an area.
What is a population?
This is the person who can break a tie vote in the Senate
Who is the Vice President?
A group of organisms that are similar and can reproduce together.
Examples: Humans, oak trees, wolves
What is a species?
The US government, according to the Declaration of Independence, gets i's power from here
Who are the people?
An unfair influence that skews results.
What is bias?
the largest number of organisms an ecosystem can support.
What is the carrying capacity?
This is another name for the Legislative branch of the US government
What is Congress?
A change or addition to the Constitution.
What is an amendment?
A system where each branch of government can limit the others
What are checks and balances?
a community of living organisms interacting with their environment
What is an ecosystem?
something that controls the size of a population (food, water, space, predators, disease).
What are limiting factors?
Upper chamber of Congress with equal representation (2 per state).
What is the Senate?
all the living organisms in an ecosystem
What is a community?
The first ten amendments to the US Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?