What is science?
something that can change in an experiment
What is a variable?
Any living thing is called a/an
What is an organism?
The human body is approximately this percent water
The idea that living things come from non-living things
What is spontaneous generation?
An animal's evolutionary history or how it has changed over time.
What is phylogeny?
These are two skills good scientists should have
What are critical thinking and identifying the problem?
The ability to maintain proper living conditions inside no matter what is going on outside
What is homeostasis?
Name one of the two things organisms need to live.
What are a place to live and raw materials?
The theory that living things only come from other living things.
What is biogenesis?
This is the smallest category of animal classification.
What is species?
a prediction that can be tested
What is a hypothesis?
an explanation of things or events based on scientific knowledge that is the result of many observations or experiments
What is a theory?
Blood is approximately this percent water.
What is 90%?
This French chemist disproved the theory of spontaneous generation.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
This Greek started one of the longest-lasting systems of animal classification.
Who is Aristotle?
an organized way of studying things and finding answers to questions
What is science?
This is the smallest unit of an organism that carries out the functions of life
What is a cell?
The length of time an organism is expected to live.
What is life span?
Earth is estimated to be this old.
What is 4.6 billion years?
The two-word classification system developed by Linnaeus.
What is binomial nomenclature?
An organized system of steps used to answer questions or solve problems
What is scientific method?
A statement about how things work in nature that seems to be true all the time
What is a law?
Name 2 things necessary to be considered alive
What are organized, stimulus response, use energy, grow and develop, and reproduce?
The experiment that attempted to prove Oparin's hypothesis.
What is the Miller-Urey experiment?
Name 2 reasons scientific names are used.
What are to avoid mistakes, to class animals of the same genus together, give descriptive information about the animal, and to organize information efficiently?