Vocabulary

Question 0

Correlation

Answer 0

Relationship between one event or action and another.

Question 1

Causal Relationship

Answer 1

One event directly produces another event.

Question 2

Organization

Answer 2

the act or process of organizing.

Question 3

Adaptation

Answer 3

any alteration in the structure or function of an organism or any of its parts that results from natural selection and by which the organism becomes better fitted to survive and multiply in its environment.

Question 4

Reproduction

Answer 4

The natural process among organisms by which new individuals are generated and the species perpetuated.

Question 5

Development

Answer 5

the act or process of developing; growth; progress: child development; economic development.

Question 6

Homeostasis

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the tendency of a system, especially the physiological system of higher animals, to maintain internal stability, owing to the coordinated response of its parts to any situation or stimulus that would tend to disturb its normal condition or function.

Question 7

Metabolism

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any basic process of organic functioning or operating: changes in the country’s economic metabolism.

Question 8

Observation

Answer 8

an act or instance of noticing or perceiving.

Question 9

Predicting

Answer 9

to foretell the future; make a prediction.

Question 10

Hypothesis

Answer 10

a proposition assumed as a premise in an argument.

Question 11

Experiment

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to try or test, especially in order to discover or prove something: to experiment with a new procedure.

Question 12

Peer Review

Answer 12

evaluation of a person’s work or performance by a group of people in the same occupation, profession, or industry.

Question 13

Scientific Method

Answer 13

a method of research in which a problem is identified, relevant data are gathered, a hypothesis is formulated from these data, and the hypothesis is empirically tested.

Question 14

Evidence

Answer 14

that which tends to prove or disprove something; ground for belief; proof.

Question 15

Indicator

Answer 15

a pointing or directing device, as a pointer on the dial of an instrument to show pressure, temperature, speed, volume, or the like.

Question 16

Sustainability

Answer 16

the ability to be sustained, supported, upheld, or confirmed.

Question 17

Trade Off

Answer 17

the exchange of one thing for another of more or less equal value, especially to effect a compromise.

Question 18

Land Degradation

Answer 18

Decline in overall quality of soil, water, or vegetation caused by human activities or natural events.

Question 19

Independent Variable

Answer 19

Also called: predictor the variable which an experimenter deliberately manipulates in order to observe its relationship with some other quantity, or which defines the distinct conditions in an experiment

Question 20

Dependent Variable

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the event studied and expected to change when the independent variable is changed. Compare independent variable control variable

Question 21

Eutrophication

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characterized by an abundant accumulation of nutrients that support a dense growth of algae and other organisms, the decay of which depletes the shallow waters of oxygen in summer.

Question 22

Experimental Group

Answer 22

A group of subjects that are exposed to the variable of a control experiment.

Question 23

Control Group

Answer 23

in an experiment or clinical trial) a group of subjects closely resembling the treatment group in many demographic variables but not receiving the active medication or factor under study and thereby serving as a comparison group when treatment results are evaluated.