Ch 1 vocab test

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Definition: testing of a hypothesis under controlled conditions

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experimenting

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Definition: base 10 decimal system used to make scientific measurements (liters, grams, meters, Celsius)

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metric system

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Willingness to accept different ideas that may not agree with your own thinking

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Open-mindedness

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Putting data into an order to reveal patterns; tables, graphs, and maps

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Organizing data

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Recording observations in a journal, with camera, or sound recording device in an attempt to avoid bias

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collecting data

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Literally means "living planet"

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biosphere

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Keeping internal environment relatively stable even when external conditions change (ex. human body temperature stays at 98.6 degrees F)

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Homeostasis

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Exposed to the same conditions as the experimental group except for one independent variable

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Control group

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Change in the environment; a signal to which an organism responds

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Stimulus

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Grouping objects according to shared characteristics using similarities and differences

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Classifying