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| anything w/ the characteristics of life |
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| comprised of only one cell |
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| the production of offspring |
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| an increase in amount of living material or formation of new structures |
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| all changes that happen in an organism's life |
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| the surroundings of an organism |
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| anything in an organism's external or internal environment that causes a reaction |
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| the regulation of an organism's internal enviorment to maintain suitable conditions for survival |
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| the ability to cause change |
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| steps that scientists use to gather info and answer questions |
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| the act of using the senses to gather info and collect data (throught this process inferences can be made) |
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| the interpretation of an observation based upon evidence or prior knowledge |
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| an experiment in whic only one condition is changed at a time |
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| an explanation for a problem that can only be formally tested |
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| the standard against which results are compared |
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| the test group that is manipulated by the scientist |
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| the cindition being tested in the experiment. |
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| the condition that reults from the manipulation of the independent variable |
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| info obtained from the investigations and experimentations |
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| an explanation of a natural phenomenon supported by a large body of scientific evidence |
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