The Science of Biology

Question 1

What is Science?

Answer 1

The body of knowledge that scientific studies have gathered over the years.

An organized way of gathering and analyzing evidence about the natural world.

Question 2

What is the Goal of science?

Answer 2

Provide natural explanations for events in the natural world.
Aims to use those explanations to understand patterns in nature and to make useful prediction based on those patterns

Question 3

What is on the scientific checklist?

Answer 3

Focuses on the natural world
Aims to explain the natural world
Uses testable ideas
Relies on evidence
Involves the scientific community
Leads to ongoing research
Benefits from scientific behavior

Question 4

What is an Inference?

Answer 4

To make a logical interpretation based on information that is already known.

Question 5

What is a Hypothesis?

Answer 5

A scientific explanation for a set of observations that can be tested in ways to support or reject it.

Question 6

What are the factor of a Controlled Experiment?

Answer 6

Uses measurable variables: Temp, Height, Time, Nutrients in soil
One variables changes all others are kept constant

Question 7

What is a Independent Variable?

Answer 7

The variable that is manipulated or purposefully changed

Question 8

What is a Dependent Variable?

Answer 8

The variable that is observed and that changes in response to the Independent Variable

Question 9

What is Data?

Answer 9

Gathered information from experiment observation

Question 10

What is Quantitative Data and Qualitative Data?

Answer 10

Quantitative is measurable and can be counted: Plants the length the height the weight
Qualitative can’t be counted: Color, direction of growth, how it feels.