Name ______/ / Date ______
Word List
Biology
Consumer
Control
Decomposer
Dependent Variable
Hypothesis
Independent Variable
/ Life Science
Parasite
Producer
Qualitative
Quantitative
Scavenger
Scientific Method
/ Temperature
Theory
Volume
asexual reproduction
dna
heredity
homeostasis
/ mass
metabolism
meter
response
sexual reproduction
stimulus
Matching
Match each definition with a word.
1. / The science that studies living things.Biology
/ 2. / a. an idea not proven but assumed to be true for purposes of further study or investigation
b. An educated guess based on information
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3. / A consumer is any organism that must eat another organism to maintain their life processes.
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/ 4. / An organism that gets it's food by breaking down dead plant and animal matter into simpler substances. For example, fungi and some bacteria are decomposers.
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5. / The amount of space that an object occupies.
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/ 6. / a series of steps that scientists use to answer questions solve problems.
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7. / something in the environment (such as light or heat) that causes a living thing to react.
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/ 8. / In science, an explanation of natural phenomena, supported by reliable body of data.
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9. / The branch of science that is the study of living things.
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/ 10. / Reproduction involving 2 parents mixing of genetic material from the union of sperm and egg.
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11. / measure of how much matter an object has.
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/ 12. / When all the systems are working correctly and your body is in balance.
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13. / The variable that is affected by change in an experiment.
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/ 14. / The measure of warmth or coldness in degrees celcius.
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15. / an organism that lives on or in a host and causes harm to the host
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/ 16. / a. Is not easily measurable as the data is not numerical.
b. to describe the properties of something without using numbers (color, shape, smell, taste, texture, opinion)
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17. / an experiment run without a variable in order to show that any data from the experimental setup was due to the variable being tested.
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/ 18. / passing traits from parents to offspring
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19. / a. all of the chemical reactions that occur within an organism.
b. The process by which a living organism takes energy from its surroundings and uses it to sustain itself, develop, and grow.
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/ 20. / a. amount such as age, weight, or percent
b. A measurable quantity described in numbers. (Weight of an object in Kg)
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21. / basic unit of length in the metric system
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/ 22. / Abbreviation for deoxyribonucleic acid-the molecules carrying the body's genetic information. DNA is double stranded in the shape of a double helix.
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23. / a living thing that makes food by using the sun's energy.
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/ 24. / This is what your body does in reaction to a stimulus.
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25. / a new organism is produced by another organism during the cell process of mitosis
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/ 26. / Animals that eat dead or rotting animal flesh. Vultures and Komodo dragons are such animals.
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27. / a. The factor that is changed in an experiment in order to study changes in the dependent variable.
b. horizontal or x-scale on a graph
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