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General Biology Chapter 1 - Scientific Method Test Review Answer Key

This document summarizes a chapter from a general biology textbook that reviews the scientific method and key concepts. It contains 23 multiple choice questions about topics like the definition of biology, important laboratory safety rules, the steps of the scientific method including developing hypotheses and experiments, and characteristics of living things such as homeostasis, reproduction, and heredity.

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General Biology Chapter 1 - Scientific Method Test Review Answer Key

This document summarizes a chapter from a general biology textbook that reviews the scientific method and key concepts. It contains 23 multiple choice questions about topics like the definition of biology, important laboratory safety rules, the steps of the scientific method including developing hypotheses and experiments, and characteristics of living things such as homeostasis, reproduction, and heredity.

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General Biology Chapter 1

Test Review
Scientific Method
1. What is biology?
• The study of life
2. Describe some important safety
rules while working in the
laboratory.
• Read the directions.
• Wash your hands.
• Wear safety goggles.
• Work cautiously.
• Measure chemicals precisely.
• Tie back hair.
• Know the location of safety equipment.
3. What is the most important
laboratory safety rule?
• Read the directions/Listen to your teacher.
4. After completing a lab, what
safety rule should you follow?
• Wash your hands (you might come into
contact with organisms you cannot see.
5. What do scientists use to
support ideas?
• Evidence
• Experiments
• Investigations
6. Describe the steps of the
scientific method.
• Observations/Questions
• Hypothesis
• Controlled Experiment
• Analysis of Results
• Conclusions
7. Define
a. Hypothesis
• Educated guess
• Testable possible explanation of an
observation
b. Independent variable
• The variable that is being changed
• What “I” am doing/changing
c. Dependent variable
• Variable that is changed
• Depends on what I do
• The variable that is measured in an
experiment
d. Theory
• A hypothesis that has been tested so
many times that there is enough
experimental data to support it
• Revised as new evidence is presented
8. What process do we use to test
a hypothesis?
• Experiments
9. A scientist noticed the number
of deer in southwest Virginia was
declining. This is an example of
a(n)
__________________________.
• Observation
10. What does the work of a
scientist begin with?
• Careful observations
11. How does science differ from
the other disciplines (like the arts
and social sciences)?
• Science relies on testing explanations
• Testing observations
12. How can hypotheses arise?
• Prior knowledge
• Logical inferences
• Informed and creative imaginations
13. What does a hypothesis
become when there is enough data
to support the hypothesis?
• Theory
14. You suggest aspirin water
could accelerate seed growth. This
is a(n)
___________________________.
• Hypothesis
15. Information gathered from seed
growth in aspirin water over a 3 day
period results in
____________________________.
• Data
16. What does a controlled
experiment allow a scientist to
isolate and test?
• A single variable
17. Why would scientists
publish the details of important
experiments?
• So their work can be repeated
• Their experimental procedures can be
reviewed
• Others can try to reproduce the results
18. Why is it important to be
able to reproduce scientific
results?
• It is an important part of any experiment
• Allows others to repeat your experiment
19. Describe the characteristics
of living things.
• made up of units called cells
• reproduce
• based on a universal genetic code
• grow and develop
• obtain and use materials and energy
• respond to their environment
• maintain a stable internal environment
• change over time
20. Define:
a. Homeostasis
• The process through which all living things
maintain a balance within their cells and
with the environment
b. Reproduction
• The process by which organisms make
more of their own kind
21. Where does the energy to
drive metabolism in animals
come from?
• Food
22. According to the characteristics
of living things, why do children
tend to look like their parents?
• Heredity
23. What is the term for a
group of organisms of one type
living in the same place?
• Population

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