Midterm Flashcards
What is not a goal of Science?
To use data to support a particular point of view
The work of scientists begins with what?
Careful observations
Science differs from other disciplines, such as history and the arts, because science relies on what?
Testing explanations
Information gathered from observing a plant grow 3 cm over a two week period results in what?
Data
You state that the presence of water could accelerate the growth of bread mold. This is a what?
Hypothesis
A hypothesis may be disproved by what?
a single experiment
Hypotheses may arise from what?
Prior knowledge, logical inferences, and imaginative guesses
Which of the following is a valid hypothesis for why a plant appears to be dying?
All of the above
In science, a hypothesis is useful only if it can be what?
It can be tested
Which of the following is not apart of how scientists work?
Generalizing
A controlled experiment allows the Scientists to isolate and test what?
Several Variables
Scientists publish the details of important experiments so that what?
Their work can be repeated
The ability to reproduce results is an important part of any of what?
A experiment
When enough experimental data supports a hypothesis, the hypothesis becomes a what?
A theory
What is a Theory?
May be revised or replaced
Biology is the study of what?
The living world
The process by which organisms keep their internal conditions relatively stable is called what?
Homeostasis
What is he term for land, water, and air on Earth?
Ecosystem
What is the term for a group of organisms of one type living in one place?
Population
An instrument that allows light to pass through the specimen and uses two lenses to form an image is a what?
Compound light microscope
Safety procedures are important when working in what?
A Lab, A field, and animals
The three particles that make up an atom are what?
Protons, Neutrons, and electrons
The space surrounding the nucleus of an atom contains what?
electrons
The nucleus is made up of what?
Protons and neutrons
Isotopes are atoms of the same element with the same number of protons and what?
A different number of neutrons
Which statement about a compound is true?
Only the physical properties of a compound are usually the same as those of he elements from which it is formed
A covalent bond is formed as the result of what?
Sharing an electron pair
What type of electron is available to form bonds?
VAlence electrons
What type of ion forms when an atom loses electrons?
Positive
The most abundant compound in most living things is what?
water
Water molecules are polar with the what?
oxygen side being slightly negative and the hydrogen side being slightly positive
A solution is a what?
An evenly distributed mixture of two or more substances
If you stir salt into boiling water, you produce a what?
A mixture called a solution
When salt is dissolved in water, water is the what?
Solvent
Suspensions are mixtures of what?
Water and undissolved material
If the pH of stomach acid and of oven cleaner were measured where would they be on the scale?
Stomach acid would be below 7 but oven cleaner would be above 7
A substance with a pH of 6 is called a what?
An acid
Solutions that contain concentrations H+ ions lower than pure water are what?
Bases
Amino acid is to protein as what?
Simple sugar is to starch