Umm Okay
Father of Taxonomy
Carl Linnaeus
How many independent variables can you test an experiment?
Another word for animal life?
Fauna
The pioneer of taxonomy.
John Ray
The study of organisms that are too small to see with the naked eye.
Microbiology
In the 7 kingdom divisions, what comes after phylum?
Class
The study of an organism's shape and structure.
Anatomy
Organism's with this type of symmetry can only be cut one way to create mirrored left and right halves.
Bilateral Symmetry
Reasoning from evidence to a more specific conclusion.
Deductive Reasoning
Mountains, savannas, and jungles are examples of what kind of environment?
Terrestrial
I want to test how miracle grow effects the rate of plant growth. What is the dependent variable in this experiment?
Plant Growth
These help raise the temperature of the surrounding waters while the rest of the ocean remains near freezing.
Hydrothermal Vents
Single-celled oranisms that can't fit into any other category belong to what kingdom?
Protista
Each genus is separated into one or more distinct categories of living things called ___.
Species
The independent variable is absent in this group.
Control Group
Organized structure, growth, reproduction, response to environmental changes, and ____ are characterisics that all living things have in common.
Metabolism
The factor that we change or manipulate within an experiement.
Independent Variable
These are some of the livliest environments in the shallow ocean; complete with many colorful and unique species.
Coral Reef
Water environments that contain little to no salt.
Freshwater
A starfsh has what kind of symmetry?
Radial
True bacteria that causes disease is found in what kingdom?
Eubacteria
A way of explaining an object or event by using a set of facts.
Theory
How do unicellular organisms grow?
By increasing their cell size through water absorption.
Factors that are the same among both groups within an experiement.
Control Variables
Anything that provides partial representation of something else: these can be physical, mathematical, or verbal.
Model