Simonds_Unit I_11_12 Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
Biology | the study of life |
4 Characteristics of Life | Organization, Reproduction, Change, Adjust to change |
Levels of Organization | Cells, Tissue, Organ, Organ Systems, Organism |
Energy | the ability to cause change |
Evolution | change over time |
Homeostatsis | the property of a system that regulates its internal environment and tends to maintain a stable, constant condition |
Stimulus | any change either internal or external which leads to a response |
Response | what happens when the organism reacts to the stimulus. |
Abiotic | a nonliving factor. For example: temperature, dirt, wind, rain. |
Biotic | a living factor. For example: plant, animal, bacteria. |
Growth | change in size (plant getting taller) |
Development | change in shape (humans going through puberty) |
control (group) | group in which all conditions are kept the same |
constants | any factors in the experiment that remain the same regardless if they are in the control or the experimental group. |
experimental group | all conditions are kept the same except for the independent variable being tested |
dependent variable | variable that the experimenter is changing |
independent variable | the result the experimenter is measuring or looking for |
axis the independent variable is graphed on | X-axis |
axis the dependent variable is graphed on | Y-axis |
the horizontal axis (side to side) | X-axis |
the vertical axis (up and down) | Y-axis |
qualitative data | data collected that is a description |
quantitative data | data is analyzed by comparing numeric (#)values |
metabolism | set of chemical reactions that happen in living organisms to maintain life |
Order of the major steps of the scientific method | Observation, Question, Hypothesis, Experiment, Analysis, Conclusion |
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