Gast 7th grade Science Vocabulary

bio

life

ology --logy

the study of

ologist -- logist

a person that studies

uni

one

multi

many

micro

small

-scope

an instrument for viewing

organism

living thing

cell

the basic( fundamental) unit of structure for all living things; the basic unit of function for all living things: the building block of life

observe

to gather information about the world using one or more of your five senses(verb)

observation

information gathered using one or more of your five senses ( noun)

quantitative observation

an observation that involves numbers

qualitative observation

an observation that is descriptive

infer

to interpret an observation (verb)

inference

the interpretation of an observation(noun)

predict

to make an inference about the future based on current evidence (verb)

prediction

an inference about the future based on current evidence (noun)

classify(verb)

to group together items that are alike in some way