Form 4 Term 1 Skills In Science

Question 1

Carcinogen

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Mutagen

Answer 2

A substance that may cause genetic defects

Question 3

Pathogen

Answer 3

An organism which causes disease

Question 4

Toxic

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Irritant

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Independent variable

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Dependent variable

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Controlled variable

Answer 8

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