| A | B |
|---|
| the variable that is purposely changed (also | manipulated |
| an action or change in behavior | response |
| a factor that can change an experiment | variable |
| facts, figures and other evidence gathered | data |
| organisms that make their own food | autotrophs |
| sharing ideas and experimental | communicating |
| basic unit of structure and function in an organism | cell |
| maintenance of stable internal conditions | homeostasis |
| a possible explanation for a set of observation...must be testable | hypothesis |
| process of change that occurs during an organism's life | development |
| single celled organisms | unicellular |
| Italian doctor who helped disprove spontaneous generation in the 1600s | Redi |
| French chemist who designed controlled experiments to reject spontaneous generation in the 1600s | Pasteur |
| a way of learning about the natural world | science |
| explanation of something you observe | inferring |
| grouping things together that are alike in some way | classifying |
| change in surroundings that causes an organism to react | stimulus |
| observations that cannot be expressed in numbers | qualitative |
| type of experiment in which only one variable is manipulated | controlled |
| variable that changes in response to the manipulated variable | responding |
| using one or more of your senses to gather info | observing |
| creating representations of complex objects | models |
| making a forecast of what will happen in the future | predicting |
| science that studies living things | biology |
| organisms that cannot make their own food | heterotrophs |
| organisms made of many cells | multicellular |
| observations that deal with numbers | quantitative |
| the many ways that scientists study the natural world | inquiry |
| how people change the world around them to solve problems | technology |
