Characteristics of Life
This characteristic describes changes in organisms, such as a caterpillar becoming a butterfly.
What is growth and development?
Aristotle classified an organism as an animal based on these three traits.
What are red blood, environment, size and shape?
This scientist invented the first microscope.
Who is Anton van Leeuwenhoek?
This microscope uses light to magnify the image of an object.
What is a light microscope?
This describes types of organisms, such as bacteria, that have only one cell.
What is unicellular?
This characteristic relates to how organisms react to stimuli.
What is response or respond?
The system of classification used by scientists today is called.
What is systematics?
This scientist classified organisms into two main groups, plants and animals.
Who was Aristotle?
This microscope has to use a magnetic field to fire a beam of particles through an object to magnify its image.
What is an electron microscope?
This is the ability of an organism to maintain stable internal conditions.
What is homeostasis?
This characteristic describes if an organism can produce offspring.
What is reproduction?
This scientific naming system uses a two word name for organisms based on genus and species.
What is binomial nomenclature?
This scientist created the naming system for organisms that is still used today.
Who is Carolus Linnaeus?
This microscope uses multiple lenses to magnify an image of an object.
What is an compound microscope?
These organisms have two or more cells, and some can even have trillions of cells.
What are multicellular organisms?
This characteristic describes how an organism gets food and breaks it down.
What is using energy?
This tool uses pairs of descriptive sentences to help scientists identify unknown organisms.
What is a dichotomous key?
Using the microscope, this scientist was the first to discover and name cells.
Who is Robert Hooke?
This characteristic of a microscope measures how clear an image appears.
What is resolution?
These groups of organisms have similar traits and are able to produce fertile offspring.
What are species?
All living organisms share these traits.
What are the characteristics of life?
This tool is a branched diagram that shows relationships among organisms.
What is a cladogram?
This scientist created the five kingdom classification system.
Who is Robert Whittaker?
Living organisms cannot be viewed using this type of microscope.
What is an electron microscope?
This is a group of similar species.
What is genus?