Vocab Day 1

2. A possible answer to a scientific question
4. Part of earth that contains all ecosystems
5. Made of one or more cells
7. Shows trends or how the data changes over time
8. A variable whose variation does not depend on that of another
10. A self-regulating process by which biological systems maintain stability while adjusting to changing external conditions
12. Community and its nonliving environment
13. Explanation based on most experiments
14. Useful for comparing information collected by counting

1. A variable whose value depends on that of another
3. Used to show how a fixed quantity is broken down into parts
6. Rule of nature that sums up related observations to describe a pattern in nature
9. The study of life
11. Anything that can trigger a physical or behavioral change