AP Bio Power words

state, assert, or maintain that something is true

• Claim
• Predict
• Support
• Effect

data from scientific observations or investigations

• Evidence
• Support
• Inquiry
• Compare

Justification for how evidence supports a claim

• Reasoning
• Effect
• Claim
• Define

Addresses a question, includes a claim, evidence, and reasoning

• Scientific Explanation
• Identify
• Reasoning
• Summarize

Examine, analyze, explore, investigate, think, ask questions

• Inquiry
• Representation
• Analyze
• Support

Tools for leaning about the things they are meant to resemble

• Model
• Summarize
• Representation
• Scientific Explanation

Diagram, image, illustration; Also see "Model"

• Representation
• Create/Design
• Identify
• Evaluate

Give a meaning for a word or phrase

• Define
• Contrast
• Claim
• Effect

to give a picture of something in words

• Describe
• Compare
• Evidence
• Inquiry

Give a good reason for something, show to be right

• Justify
• Effect
• Contrast
• Evaluate