Unit 1 Biology Quiz

What is the branch of science that deals with living organisms?

• Anatomy

• Zoology

• Botany

• Biology

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of living things?

• Reproduction

• Growth and development

• Response to environment

• Inanimate

What is the process called that allows living organisms to maintain a stable internal environment?

• Homeostasis

• Evolution

• Reproduction

• Growth

What is the goal of science?

• To investigate and understand the natural world

• To explain events in the natural world

• To make useful predictions

• All of the above

What is a hypothesis?

• A scientific explanation for a set of observations

• A guideline for scientific investigations

• A controlled experiment

• A well-tested explanation that unifies a broad range of observations

The information you collect while doing your experiment is called

• conclusions

• data

• hypotheses

• procedures

The independent variable is the ONE thing you _____.

• change on purpose
• control or keep constant
• measure

The variable that is being measured or observed is called the _______________. Hint: this is the variable that is the result or effect

• independent variable

• dependent variable

• control variable

What is a constant/control in an experiment?

• Things that do not change in a experiment. It's the variable that stays the same. You can have many variables stay the same.

• It's the variables that the scientist changes in the experiment

• It's the variables that are being measured in an experiment

What is being changed in this experiment?

• ramp height
• the speed that the ball rolls
• type of ball