Does the growth of bamboo count as reproduction?
Do plants require nutrition?
Is paper considered food?
What is the importance of growth?
Is feces considered excretion?
How do plants carry out excretion?
What is a stimulus?
Why do we stop smelling the fragrance of flowers after smelling it for a while?
Do all living organisms possess all seven characteristics of life?
What is the importance of movement and sensitivity?
Do plants carry out nutrition, and if so, how is it different from animals?
All living organisms require food. However, the same substance may be food for some organisms but not for others. What is the definition of food?
Wood—what organisms consider it food?
What is the purpose of food intake for our bodies?
Among the seven characteristics of life, which do you think are not essential for all living organisms?
Some organisms, such as plants, cannot move freely. How do these organisms ensure reproduction?
Do plants require the characteristic of nutrition?
Based on the definitions of the characteristics of life, explain why a car is not considered a living organism.
Can human-made robots be considered living organisms?
A person’s height stops changing significantly after about the age of 16. Does this mean people at this age no longer grow?
What is the purpose of growth?
Why do all living organisms need excretion?
What are the main differences between how plants and animals excrete?
Living organisms only respond to changes in the environment, but a blackboard in a classroom does not change. Why do we still continuously see the blackboard?
Explain why people cannot smell their own body odor.
How can you test whether your mouth has bad breath?
The definition of movement is debated among scientists. How is the movement of plants different from that of animals (e.g., humans)?
Can you name animals that, like plants, cannot move freely from one place to another?
There is a type of tree that can move one meter per year! How do you think this tree achieves that?
What is the difference between respiration and gaseous exchange?
About the Scientific Method
What is scientific knowledge?
Provide examples from daily life of things that do not qualify as scientific knowledge.
What do you think is the most useful aspect of scientific knowledge?
Non-scientific knowledge can also help solve everyday problems. Provide some examples.
Asking good questions is a key step in solving problems. What are the characteristics of a good question?
What is a hypothesis? Is all scientific knowledge derived from hypotheses?
What makes a good hypothesis?
What is a prediction? How is it related to a hypothesis?
Are experiments always conducted in laboratories? If not, provide other examples.
If the results of an experiment do not match expectations, can there still be a scientific conclusion?
Compare independent variables and dependent variables.
Must every experimental design have only one independent variable?
Must every experimental design have only one dependent variable?
Are all environmental factors considered controlled variables? What are controlled variables?
What is the difference between a hypothesis and an assumption?
What is the difference between experimental errors and experimental mistakes?
Does scientific knowledge always need to be obtained through experiments?
If the results of an experiment do not match predictions, what could be the possible reasons?
What is a fair test?