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20 Cards in this Set
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All living things and all the places they are found on Earth. |
biosphere |
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Variety of life on Earth. |
biodiversity |
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Living things that can reproduce by interbreeding among themselves. |
species |
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Study of life. |
biology |
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Any individual living thing. |
organism |
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Basic unit of life. |
cell |
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All the chemical processes that build up or break down materials. |
metabolism |
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Organized group of related parts that interact to form a whole. |
system |
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The maintenance of constant internal conditions in an organism. |
homeostasis |
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Change in living things over time. |
evolution |
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An inherited trait that gives an advantage to individual organisms and is passed on to future generations. |
adaptation |
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Using your senses, or other tools, to study the world. |
observation |
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Proposed answer for a scientific question. |
hypothesis |
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Observations that can be recorded and analyzed. |
data |
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The use of independent and dependent variables to find cause and effect relationships to test hypotheses. |
experiments |
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Condition that is manipulated, or changed by the scientist, during an experiment. |
independent variable |
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Experimental data that is observed and measured during an experiment. |
dependent variable |
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Conditions that do not change during an experiment. |
contstants |
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Proposed explanation for a wide range of observations and experimental results that is supported by a wide range of evidence. |
theory |
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The use and application of living things and biological processes. |
biotechnology |