science chapter 1 complete Flashcards

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Cover with a clean dressing and apply direct pressure to stop bleeding

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Cuts

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Flush the skin with large amounts of water

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Foreign objects in the eye

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Immerse in cold water

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Burns

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Flush the skin with large amounts of water

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Spills on skin

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___ is using one or more of your senses to gather information

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Observing

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A ___ ____ accurately shows the proportions between its parts

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Scale model

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When you explain or interpret the things you observe, you are…

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Inferring

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Describes how to measure a variable or define a term

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Operational definition

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A possible explanation for a set of observations or answer to a scientific question

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Hypothesis

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The facts, figures, and other evidence gathered through observations

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Data

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An _____ is a living thing

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Organism

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The study of life is

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Biology

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The different ways scientists study the natural world

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Scientific inquiry

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Sharing of ideas and experimental findings with others through writing and speaking

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Communicating

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A _____ _____ is a part of the experiment to which you can compare the results of the other tests

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Control group

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The one variable that is purposely changed in an experiment

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Manipulated variable

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An experiment in which only one variable is manipulated at a time

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Controlled experiment

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Deal with descriptions that can’t be expressed in numbers, a type of observation

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Qualitative observation

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_______ is the process of change that causes an organism to become more complex during its life time

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Development

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To deal with a number or amount, a type of observation

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Quantitative observation

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______ is the process of grouping together items that are alike in some way

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Classifying

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The way that an organism is put together

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Structure

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______ ______ involves creating representations of complex objects or processes

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Making models

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The structure and function of an organism are _______, or work together o meet the needs of the organism

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Complementary

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The factor that may change in response to the manipulated variable

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Responding variable

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_____ is making a forecast of what will happen in the future based on past experience or evidence

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Predicting

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The study of the natural world is _____

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Science

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Processes that enable an organism to survive

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Functions

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The study of living things is called ____ ____

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Life science

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Factors that can change in an experiment

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Variables