Medical Detectives 1.1 and 1.2 TEST

Measurements, specifically pulse rate, temperature, respiration rate, and blood pressure, that indicate the state of a patient's essential body functions. 

• Health indicators
• Vital signs
• Control

• Experiments

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-3

The measurement of how many times your heart beats per minute.

• Blood pressure

• Respirations

• Pulse

• Temperature

The measurement of how warm or cold your body is.

• Temperature

• Pulse

• Respirations

• Blood pressure

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

The measurement of how many breaths you take in one minute.

• Pulse

• Temperature

• Blood pressure

• Respirations

The measurement of the force of blood pushing against the walls of the arteries as the heart pumps blood.

• Pulse

• Blood pressure

• Respirations

• Temperature

Variable not dependent on the state of another variable. It is what is being changed.

• Dependent variable
• Independent variable
• Control variable
• Constant variable

Variable depending on the state of another variable. It is what is being measured.

• Dependent variable
• Independent variable
• Control variable
• Constant variable

A proposed explanation based on some evidence and used as a starting point to investigate further.

• Conclusion
• Assumption
• Theory
• Hypothesis

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Match the correct vital sign readings.

• 14 bpm

• Respirations

• 98.6

• Temperature

• 100/75 mmHg

• Blood pressure

• 75 bpm

• Pulse

What is considered a high fever?

• A high fever is 99°F

• A high fever is 98.6°F

• A high fever is 103°F

• A high fever is 100°F