Form 4 Term 1 Skills In Science Flashcards

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Carcinogen

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Substance which may cause cancer if breathed in or swallowed or abosorbed thought the skin

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Mutagen

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A substance that may cause genetic defects

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Pathogen

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An organism which causes disease

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4
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Toxic

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Substance which in small quantities can cause death or Damage to health

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Irritant

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Substance including dusts who chi behaves like a corrosive but doesn’t destroying tissues causes significant reddening or inflammation

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Independent variable

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To e thing that you are going to change in your experiment to see if it has an effect

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Dependent variable

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The thing that will be measured

The data you will collect to see if you have answer your experiment

It changes in response to the independent variable

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Controlled variable

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These are the things that need to be kept the same or kept constant

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