Chapter 1 Biology Review

How are data collected?

• Observing

• Using technology

• Surveys

• Experiments

Which of the following is an example of what science IS?

• A process

• A set of never-changing facts

• Study of the supernatural

• Beliefs about the world that never change

Observation really means...

• An educated guess

• Noticing or describing events or processes

• Controlling an experiment

• Communicating results

An inference is a....

• Educated guess

• Logical interpretation based on what scientists already know

• The communication of results

• The first step

A hypothesis is...

• An educated guess

• A type of an inference

• The communication step in an experiment

• The name of a control group

Variables that are kept unchanged in an experiment are called...

• Response

• Independent

• Dependent

• Control

Variables that are deliberately changed in an experiment are called...?

• Dependent

• Control

• Independent

• Response

This variable changes in response to the independent variable...

• Dependent

• Independent

• Control

• Response

This kind of data is expressed in numbers

• Quantitative

• Qualitative

This kind of data cannot be expressed in numbers, so it's expressed in characteristics & words

• Quantitative

• Qualitative