What is Science?
Scientific Inquiry
What is Life?
Classification
Random
100
Observations that deal with numbers.
What is quantitative?
100
Hypothesis
What is a possible explanation for a set of observations that is TESTABLE?
100
Organisms that make their own food.
What are autotrophs?
100
The three domains
What are Bacteria, archaea, and eukarya?
100
The 4 kingdoms of eukarya.
What are protists, fungi, plants and animals.
200
When you explain or interpret the things you observe.
What is inferring?
200
Another way to say dependent variable.
What is responding variable.
200
Organisms that cannot make their own food.
What are heterotrophs?
200
The 8 levels of classification (broadest to narrowest).
What are domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species?
200
The source of energy for autotrophs.
What is the sun.
300
The process of grouping things together that are alike in some way.
What is classification?
300
The six steps of the scientific method
What is ask a question, form a hypothesis, test hypothesis, analyze data, draw conclusions, and communicate results.
300
The process of change that occurs durring an organism's life.
What is development?
300
The scientific study of how things are organized.
What is taxonomy?
300
The Italian who came up with the scientific method.
Who is Galileo?
400
The dog must be ill. IS this an inference or an observation? Explain.
What is inference?
400
A statement that describes how to measure a variable define a term.
What is an operational definition.
400
The idea that living things come from other living things came from two scientists.
Who are Louis Pasteur and Francesco Redi?
400
This Swedish naturalist devised a system of naming organisms based on their observable features.
Who is Carolus Linnaeus?
400
Which two domains include only organisms that are prokaryotes?
What are bacteria and archaea?
500
Name five skills that are important in scientific thinking.
What are observing, inferring, predicting, classifying and making models?
500
Perhaps crickets chirp more at a higher temperature. What are the X, Y and Z variables?
X: Temperature Y: Number of chirps per minute Z: time of day, type of cricket, season, location, etc
500
The six characteristics of all living things.
What are cellular organization, the chemicals of life, energy use, responds to surroundings, growth and development, and reproduction.
500
Owls, lions, fish, lizards and people are all in this phylum.
What is chordata?
500
The naming system used by Linnaeus.
What is the binomial nomenclature?
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