Biology B Unit 1 Quiz Practice

What's the first thing you should do when after entering class quietly?

• Sit down.
• Get your folder, a pencil, and today's, materials.
• Answer the Starting Block Question.
• Talk to a peer.

When Mr. Heisler is teaching, you should not talk unless you...

• need help right away.
• need to tell a peer something.
• raise your hand have been called on.
• Have a great story to tell.

During science class, what are you expected to do at all times?

• Talk about whatever you want.
• Participate
• Don't ask many questions.
• All of these answers.

Where should you keep your work?

• In the activity box.
• In your folder.

What is science?

• A way to learn the truth about a question in nature.
• A way to learn to do critical thinking that will help you in life.
• A series of topics you are required to learn for a high school diploma or GED.
• All of these answers.

Why do scientists practice the scientific method?

• It doesn't really work, they just do it out of habit.
• To earn more money.
• Because it is often the easiest way to do an experiment.
• To learn the truth about something in nature.

A hypothesis is an educated what?

• Theory
• Guess
• Question
• Scientist

What variable is intentionally changed in an experiment?

• Dependent
• Independent
• Control
• None of these answers.

What is peer review?

• When a non-scientist looks over an experiment to see if it worked.
• Evaluation of scientific, academic, or professional work by others working in the same field.
• When a scientist asks their friends what they think about how something works.
• When a scientist offers another scientist a hypothesis.

Self-replicating material in all living things. It is the carrier of genetic information.

• DNA
• RNA
• Ribosomes
• Chloroplasts