Unit 1, Week 1-Biology Vocabulary

What is homeostasis?

• a reaction to a stimulus

• something that is always changing

• maintaining a constant that stays the same

What is an organism?

• something that is living

• anything that was once living, but can be dead

• a bacteria

What is a hypothesis?

• the result of a test

• the process in which something is tested

• an estimated guess

What is a dependent variable?

• the result of a test

• something that the scientist changes

• not part of the experiment

What is biology?

• the study of science

• the study of plants and animals

• the study of life

What is a stimulus?

• something that causes a response or reaction

• something that causes movement

• something the scientist must create as part of the variable

What is an experiment?

• when a scientist uses different chemicals and mixes them together to get a result in a lab, taking all proper safety precautions

• a test done of a hypothesis, that includes variables, controls, and recording of data

• something that a scientist conducts in a lab

What is a independent variable?

• something that cannot be tested within the experiment

• the one that the scientist changes and tests

• a variable that does not change and stays the same

What is a characteristic?

• the name of an organism

• something that all organisms have in common

• a distinguishing feature or trait that helps distinguish it from other organisms

What is a hypothesis?

• a testing process

• a process in which you observe something that happens

• an estimation, a close guess