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Vocab review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| study of living things and the factors that affect them | Biology |
| anything that has all 8 characteristics of life | organism |
| process of making offspring | reproduction |
| group of similar organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring | species |
| getting bigger by making more cells or larger cells | growth |
| changes that happen during an organism's life | development |
| anything in an organism's environment that causes it to react | stimulus |
| reaction to a stimulus | response |
| maintaining an internal balance | homeostasis |
| characteristic that helps an organism to survive in its environment | adaptation |
| procedure scientists use to solve a problem or answer a question | Scientific Method |
| possible explanation based on prior knowledge | hypothesis |
| procedure performed in a controlled setting to test a hypothesis and collect data | experiment |
| experimental group in an experiment that does not receive the factor being tested | control group |
| the one factor that can be changed in a controlled experiment. It causes any experimental outcome | Independent variable |
| factor being measured in a contolled experiment, its data you will be recording | Dependent Variable |
| recorded observations and measurements from an experiment | Data |
| explanation of some natural occurance that is based on tons of scientific data collected over many, many years | Theory |