Exploring Life
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| organism | a living thing that is made of one or more cells; uses energy; moves; reproduces; responds to its environment; adapts;has a life span
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| cell | the smallest unit of an organism that can perform life functions
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| stimulus | anything an organism RESPONDS to (such as sound; light; heat)
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| response | the REACTION of an organism to a stimulus (Ex. plants moves towards light)
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| adaptation | any characteristic of an organism that makes it better able to SURVIVE in its environment
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| homeostasis | the REGULATION of steady, life-maintaining conditions inside an organism or cell, despite changes in the environment
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| development | ALL the changes undergone by living things as they grow
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| life span | the length of time an organism is expected to live
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| spontaneous generation | the theory that NONLIVING things produce living things (Ex. frogs arise spontaneously from mud)
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| biogenesis | the theory that LIVING things come only from other LIVING things
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| scientific methods | problem-solving procedures used by scientists [state the problem; gather information; form a hypothesis; perform an experiment; analyze data; and draw conclusions
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| hypothesis | a prediction that can be tested
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| variable | the factor being TESTED in an experiment
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| control | the STANDARD for comparison in an experiment
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| theory | an EXPLANATION of things or events in nature, based on many observations (subject to change when evidence changes)
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| law | a RULE that describes a PATTERN IN NATURE and how it works under certain conditions
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| SI Units | International System of measurement used by scientists around the world (km; cm; mm) --> can compare results
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