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QUEST 4 MR.MANGOSSSS
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Science | Study of everything |
| Worldview | How a person interprets new information based on experience and beliefs |
| Creation Mandate | God’s command for humans to populate and take care of Earth |
| Organism | A complete living thing |
| Cell | Smallest,and function part of an organism |
| Unicellular | An organism with only one cell |
| Multicellular | An organism with many cells |
| Homeostasis | The body’s process of maintaining balance |
| Data (definition & types) | Information collected in an experiment; Quantitative and Qualitative |
| Qualitative | Information using descriptions (not “quality” for use in science) |
| Quantitative | Information using numbers |
| Hypothesis | An untested prediction of what you think will happen in an experiment |
| Theory | An idea that has been tested by scientists and is generally accepted as probably true (not proven) |
| Scientific Law | A scientific principle tested for many years by many scientists and believed to be consistently true |
| Model | A simplified version of something used to study it |
| Controlled Experiment | A full scientific experiment that tests a hypothesis by controlling variables |
| Independent Variable | The one variable that you intentionally change in a controlled experiment |
| Dependent Variable | depends on independent variable |
| Control Group | The group in an experiment that does not receive the treatment or medicine |
| Experimental Group | The group in an experiment that receives the treatment or medicine |
| Taxonomy | grouping and classifying living things |
| Prokaryotic Cell | A cell with no nucleus |
| Eukaryotic Cell | A cell with a nucleus |
| Autotroph | An organism that makes its own food/energy, usually from sunlight, like plants |
| Heterotroph | An organism that cannot make its own food and gets energy by consuming other organisms |