Thinking about Inquiry
Inquiry represents the way scientific thinking works. The major points we identified in class were:
1.) Gather all possible information around you - EVERYTHING you can observe, perceive, and understand about the given subject
2.) Using the information you have gathered, CREATE a question that will help you to further understand the pattern, process, or system at work (these tend to be questions about the natural world, i.e. Why are microbes becoming resistant to antibiotics?)
3.) Carry out research, run a test, experiment, and discuss the subject until the question can be answered USING EVIDENCE.
Reflective Journal: Friday, February 23rd
What question do you have about how life changes over time? With unlimited resources, what kind of evidence would you gather to figure out more about your question?
What is the difference between a CHARACTERISTIC and an ADAPTATION? In one full paragraph, describe how these two terms could be easily confused.
Extra Point Question: Since biology often refers to the concept of a species, and has only uncovered a small FRACTION of the true number of species on Earth, why is it important to discover and learn about the remaining diversity? (You can use the web project at http://www.tolweb.org/tree/ to discover some examples of organisms)
17 comments:
The difrence can be that an addaptaition can be sumthing a person does to be able to live in that area,and a charectoristic is that thing people does to live imn the area
A characteristic is something that distinguishes a person and an adaptation is when you have characteristics to fit your surrounding. They can be confused for each other due to the fact that there are characteristics that count as an adaptation.
Jen :)
an adaptation is something that happens to help a living organism survive, characteristics describe the qualities an organism has, though they can change if a the organism goes through an adaptation.
What question do you have about how life changes over time? With unlimited resources, what kind of evidence would you gather to figure out more about your question?
What is the difference between a CHARACTERISTIC and an ADAPTATION? In one full paragraph, describe how these two terms could be easily confused. characteristic is pretty much how you are and adaption is what changes characteristics when you change from one place to another you have to adapt
What question do you have about how life changes over time? With unlimited resources, what kind of evidence would you gather to figure out more about your question?
What is the difference between a CHARACTERISTIC and an ADAPTATION? In one full paragraph, describe how these two terms could be easily confused. characteristic is pretty much how you are and adaption is what changes characteristics when you change from one place to another you have to adapt
How people born with certain disfunctions of disease lean how to deal with thier life as they grow into an adult
Martin
what i think is that a characteristic is something that you are born whith and an adaptation is something that happens to make it easyier to live in your environment. my question is why do we get taller through time because humans used to be really short and now alot of us are very tall even as teenagers! Nathan Refka!
what i think is that a characteristic is something that you are born whith and an adaptation is something that happens to make it easyier to live in your environment. my question is why do we get taller through time because humans used to be really short and now alot of us are very tall even as teenagers! Nathan Refka!
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I was wondering how long it takes for a species' characteristic to change completely? If we had a better catalogue of species characteristics throughout time.
A characteristic is something an organism is born with whereas an adaptation is something that is developed as a result of the organism's habitat.
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Stephanie
why do people influence others to change?
A characteristic is something you are born with or able to do physicaly. Like your eye color of hair color, adaptation is something you have to learn in order to survive
how do our discoveries and the things we do now affect what happens in the future? I think the difference between a charcteristic and an adaptation is...a charachteristic is something your born with and an adaptation is knowledge that has been aqquired
brianna
a characteristic is something u are born wih. and an adaptation is something thats developes over time for servival or otherwise. my question about how life changes is how do we look and think so different from the earlier humans? i would gather evidence from them and us to figure it out.
zane
why do people learn new technoligy to make them lazyer?
a characteristic is a part of some one like a person has a good personality.
a adaptation is is like finger nalis you adapt them to protect your fingers
chris
why do people do drugs and who discoverd drugs and how many drugs were dicoverd over the last 2000 years how did the drugs change over the years
Who first came up with the idea of Evolution and how did that person get this idea?
An adaptation happens for survival and charcteristic is a trait that can happen for any reason though usually it's for survival.
-Tina
-Jeremiah
The thing I wonder about how life changes over time is why? Is is predetermined at all or does it happen at random?
A characteristic is something the creature has naturally, an adaptation had to be created.
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