Ch1 voc science

Experiment - To use controlled conditions to test a prediction.

Scientific Methods - procedures used to solve problems and answer questions that can include stating the problem, gathering information, forming a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis with an experiment, analyzing data, and drawing conclusions.

Hypothesis - A prediction that can be tested.

Control - The standard to which the outcome of a test is compared.

Variable - something in an experiment that can change.

Theory - an explanation of things or events based on scientific knowledge resulting from many observations and experiments.

Law - A statement about how things work in nature that seems to be true consistently.

Raw Materials - substances needed by organisms to make other necessary substances

Organism - any living thing

Cell - smallest unit of an organism that can carry on life functions

Homeostasis - regulation of an organism’s internal, live maintaining conditions

Contaminate - to make impure by coming into contact with an unwanted substance.

Spontaneous Generation - idea that living things come from nonliving things.

Biogenesis - theory that living things only come from other living things.

Common Name - a nonscientific term that may vary from region to region

Phylogeny - evolutionary history of an organism; used today to group organisms into 6 kingdoms

Kingdom - first and largest category used to classify organisms.

Binomial Nomenclature - two word naming system that gives all organisms their scientific name.

Genus - first word of the two word scientific name used to identify a group of similar species.