Unit 1 - Investigating Life

This variable in an experiment is the one being deliberately changed by the scientist. 

• dependent variable
• independent variable
• data
• control group

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CCSS.6.EE.A.2C

An experiment is performed on plants to see how different liquids affect plant growth. Each plant in the experiment is given a different liquid; water, apple juice, or milk. Each plant has the same amount of soil, sunlight, and listens to the same music. In this investigation, the independent variable is ...

• The type of plant
• The amount of sunlight
• The type of music
• The type of liquid

Explaining the color of a chemical would be what kind of observation?

• Qualitative 
• Quanitative

What is the part of the experiment that is left alone or “natural", and is used to compare back to?

• Independent Variable
• Dependent Variable
• Control Group
• Experimental Group 

You will want your experiment to have ____ independent variable(s) in it for the experiment to be valid.

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

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NGSS.HS-PS1-5

A scientist hypothesizes that the temperature at which an alligator's egg is incubated will determine whether the alligator will be male or female. The dependent variable is

• the size of the baby alligators

• the gender of the baby alligators

• the incubator

• the temperature

When you step out into the cold, your body shivers in order to keep its temperature at 98.6F.

• All living things use energy
• All living things contain cells
• All living things maintain homeostasis
• All living things grow

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NGSS.HS-LS1-3

An amoeba is a unicellular organism. Which characteristic of life is this?

• All living things use energy
• All living things contain cells
• All living things respond to their environment
• All living things grow

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NGSS.MS-LS1-1

A tulip opens in the morning at sunrise and closes in the evening at sunset.

• All living things have cells
• All living things use energy
• All living things respond to their environment
• All living things grow

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Over many hundreds of years, a population of rabbits living in the woods adapts to its surrounding with brown fur.

• All living things can evolve over generations.

• All living things grow

• All living things use energy

• All living things have cells