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| The study of living things organisms and the way they act and how they chnage over time |
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| procedures scientists use to gather informationand answer questions. include observations, hypothezizing, experimenting, gathering and interperting results |
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| a number expressing a property, quantity, or relation that remains unchanged under specified conditions. |
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| something noticed while doing an activity or studying something |
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| Factor that is manipulated by the experimenter in an experiment. |
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| Factor in an experiment that can change if the independent variable is changed. |
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| In an experiment, the standard that is used for comparison |
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| Pattern of growth in which a population of organisms grows faster as it increases in size, resulting in a population explosion |
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| Information describing color, odor, shape, or some other physical characteristic. |
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| Numerical information describing how much, how little, how big, how tall, how fast, etc. |
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| the survival and reproduction of organisms that are best suited to their enviroment |
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| maintains that geologic forces produced changes on earth in the past, and it predicts that those same forces will continue to produce changes in the future |
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| explanations that are testable through experiment or observations |
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| explains current observations and predicts new observations |
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| increase the chance that an organism will survive and reproduce in its particular enviroment |
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