Human Body*
The outside layer of skin, which is above the dermis.
What is the epidermis?
He wrote Origin of Species.
Who was Charles Darwin?
This is the largest mammal.
What is the blue whale?
This is science put to practical use.
What is technology?
The term for the fat found in many marine mammals.
What is blubber?
This is the best first-aid treatment for someone with a muscle strain.
What is the RICE treatment?
Rest
Ice
Compression
Elevate
This is the idea that the universe and all of life are the result of chance and natural processes.
What is evolution?
This dormant state is entered by some mammals during the winter, to conserve energy.
What is hibernation?
This is the study of plants.
What is botany?
These are the only flying mammals.
What are bats?
This is the largest part of the human brain, which is responsible for conscious thought?
What is the cerebrum?
This is the idea that an organism that's better able to survive than another organism in a certain environment will survive and become predominant.
What is natural selection?
Only mammals have this respiratory structure.
What is a diaphragm?
Where an organism lives within its environment.
What is its habitat?
These are the two parts of an organism's scientific name.
What are the genus and species?
This type of disease is caused by pathogens.
What are infectious diseases?
This is the most important characteristic of man that sets us apart from mammals?
What is the idea that man is made in the image of God?
These extensions on the heads of some hoofed mammals are made of dead bone without a covering.
What are antlers?
This is what we call a sensible but untested explanation for a scientific problem.
What is a hypothesis?
These are animals that have backbones.
What are vertebrates?
The sum of all body activities.
What is metabolism?
This idea says that evolution happens in rapid bursts separated by long periods of time.
What is punctuated equilibrium?
This group of marine mammals has comb-like plates for capturing food.
What are baleen whales?
The food-making process of plants.
What is photosynthesis?
This is the type of fracture that breaks through the skin.
What is a compound fracture?
This organ produces bile, filters some poisonous substances from the blood, and stores excess blood glucose.
What is the liver?
The idea that the present is the key to the past.
What is uniformitarianism?
The only group of mammals that's considered truly carnivorous.
What are felines?
This type of symmetry is described by being able to be cut in equal halves in more than one direction.
What is radial symmetry?
The term referring to plants.
What is flora?
These are tiny air sacs in the lungs.
What are alveoli?
This incorrect view of life teaches that each modern species is descended directly from an identical, originally created species with no variation.
What is the lawn view?
The term for mammals whose young develop in a uterus or womb.
What are placental mammals?
This is the movement of water from higher concentration to lower concentration through a semipermeable membrane.
What is osmosis?
This is a strong feeling that's expressed in a physical way.
What is an emotion?