1c Flashcards
Information that people collect
Data
Data communicated using numbers
Quantitative data
Data communicated by using words
Qualitative data
An idea that scientists use to explain the data that they have collected
Theory
An idea that scientist used to describe what they have observed
Law
A simplified explanatory, description, or representation of the world
Model
Using a variety of tools and skills to answer a question or solve a problem
Scientific inquiry
The way for a scientist to test the way he thinks something works
Controlled experiment
Factors that change
Variables
Identifies an organism uniquely
Scientific name
An explanation that is based on limited observations
Hypothesis
The group in a controlled experiment that is not exposed to the independent variable
Control group
The group in an experiment that is exposed to the independent variable
Experimental group
The science of sorting organisms into groups
Taxonomy
Structure that holds and protects DNA for eukaryotic cells
Nucleus
Cell with a nucleus
Eukaryotic cell
Cell with no nucleus
Prokaryotic cell
An organism that makes its food using energy from its environment
Autotroph
An organism that gets its energy by eating other organisms
Heterotroph
