Biomes
Aquatic Ecosystems
Characteristics of Life
Classification of Organisms
Scientific Terms
100
This biome covers the most area on Earth
What is taiga?
100
Lake and ponds are this type of aquatic ecosystem.
What is freshwater?
100
All living things have all of these.
What are characteristics of life?
100
Humans belong to this kingdom.
What is Animalia?
100
A prediction or statement that can be tested.
What is hypothesis?
200
This biome receives very little rain.
What is a desert?
200
This is the amount of salt dissolved in water.
What is salinity?
200
When a tadpole turns into a frog.
What is development?
200
The first name of the organism's binomial nomenclature is this.
What is genus?
200
The variable that is changed on purpose for the experiment.
What is independent variable?
300
A biome that is cold, dry and treeless.
What is a tundra?
300
This is where salt water meets freshwater.
What is estuary?
300
When two horses mate and produce a foal.
What is reproduction?
300
These are organisms made of two or more cells.
What are multicellular organisms?
300
The variable that reacts to the change and is measured.
What is dependent variable?
400
These are regions on Earth between the tropic and polar circles.
What is temperate?
400
Sunlight reaches the bottom of this body of water.
What is a pond?
400
When a plant grows toward the sun.
What is external stimulus?
400
This is the classification that comes after kingdom.
What is phylum?
400
A living or once living organism.
What is biotic?
500
Lumbering, farming and ranches are why people have cleared much of this biome.
What is tropical rain forests?
500
Drinking, bathing and crop irrigation are examples of this.
How do humans use freshwater ecosystems?
500
These are all 6 characteristics of life.
What are growth and development, homeostasis, organization, reproduction, response to stimuli, and the use of energy.
500
Today, there are this many kingdoms.
What is 6?
500
The smallest unit of life.
What is cell?
M
e
n
u