Spencer Unit 1
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| Study of life | ||
| The belief that living things come from non-living things | ||
| Using your senses to gather info (data) in an orderly way | ||
| Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge or past experience | ||
| Numbers (quantities) | ||
| Characteristics, decriptions (qualities) | ||
| Living things develop from other living things and NOT nonliving matter | ||
| Life | ||
| Made up of the brain and spinal cord | ||
| Made up of Cranial Nerves and Spinal Nerves | ||
| A nerve cell | ||
| Part of a neuron that carries impulses TOWARD the cell body | ||
| Part of a neuron that includes the nucleus | ||
| long fiber that carries impulses AWAY from the cell body of a neuron | ||
| Part of the brain that controls movement, aggression, mood | ||
| Part of the brain that controls sensory information | ||
| Part of the brain that controls memory, hearing, smell and speech | ||
| Part of the brain that controls vision | ||
| Seat of Intelligence | ||
| Musical, artistic, imagination and controls the left side of the body | ||
| Scientific, numerical thinking and controls the right side of the body | ||
| Processes, sources of thoughts, emotions and memories | ||
| Connects brain to the rest of the body, controls reflexes | ||
| Part of the brain that controls balance and coordination | ||
| Receive messages, process information, controls and coordinates body functions | ||
| Opium, morphine and heroin; they depress neuron activity, temporarily lessening pain and anxiety. | ||
| Drugs that speed up the central nervous system (Examples Meth, Caffiene) | ||
| Drugs that slow down the central nervous system (Example Alcohol) | ||
| A drug, often smoked, whose effects include impairment of judgment and concentration and can cause short term memory loss | ||
| Drugs that causes people to see and hear things that are not really there (hallucinate) (Example: Shrooms, LSD) | ||
| Substances whose fumes are sniffed and inhaled to acheive a high (Example: Gasoline, paint) | ||
| An experiment in which only ONE variable is tested or changed at a time | ||
| The group that is NOT being tested | ||
| The group that is being tested | ||
| The one thing that you are changing in the experiment | ||
| The thing you measure or observe to determine your answer to your problem. | ||
| Process by which organisms maintain a relatively stable (balanced) internal environment (Example: Maintain body temperature by sweating if you're hot or shivering if you're cold | ||
| Measurable, observable, testable, repeatable | ||
| Based on belief, faith or the supernatural | ||
| Basic metric unit for measuring length | ||
| Basic metric unit for measuring volume | ||
| Basic metric unit for measuring mass |