Form 4 Term 1 Skills In Science Flashcards
Carcinogen
Substance which may cause cancer if breathed in or swallowed or abosorbed thought the skin
Mutagen
A substance that may cause genetic defects
Pathogen
An organism which causes disease
Toxic
Substance which in small quantities can cause death or Damage to health
Irritant
Substance including dusts who chi behaves like a corrosive but doesn’t destroying tissues causes significant reddening or inflammation
Independent variable
To e thing that you are going to change in your experiment to see if it has an effect
Dependent variable
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
Controlled variable
These are the things that need to be kept the same or kept constant