Biology Study Guide—Chapter 1

Define the following terms:

1. growth—

2. development—

3. reproduction—

4. adaptation—

5. stimulus—

6. response—

7. homeostasis—

8. environment—

9. evolution—

10. technology—

11. scientific method—

12. hypothesis—

13. experiment—

14. control—

15. data—

16. quantitative data—

17. qualitative data—

18. theory—

19. What does biology study?

20. What are the seven characteristics of living things?

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21. How does science differ from other disciplines such as history?

22. How does the work of scientists usually begin?

23. How can a hypothesis be disproved?

24. How can a hypothesis be proved true?

25. What makes a hypothesis useful?

26. What is true about a controlled experiment?

27. What is the difference between independent and dependent variables?

independent variable—

dependent variable—

28. A person grows bacteria and makes observations every day for a week. What part of scientific method is being described in this example?

29. How can you tell the difference between qualitative and quantitative data?

30. How can quantitative data be reported to aid understanding?

31. What are the four basic units of the metric system and what do they measure?

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32. What saying can you use to convert from one unit of measurement to another in the metric system?

33. How do you use the saying in the above question?

34. Compare the structure and function of a light microscope with that of an electron microscope.

Light microscope—

Electron microscope—

35. What safety rules are important when working with living or dead organisms?

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36. When doing an experiment, how do you write the hypothesis?

37. When doing an experiment, how do you determine the variable?

38. When doing an experiment, how do you tell which situation is the control?

39. What is the value of the control in an experiment?

40. When doing an experiment, how do you form your conclusion?

THERE ARE MORE QUESTIONS ON THE BACK!

41. Draw a compound microscope and label its parts

Honors:

42. What does the slope of a graph indicate?

43. How do you graph two sets of data on the same graph axes?

44. What parts should all good graphs have?