Dead white men
The process by which a living organism forms from a dead organism, believed by scientists for 2000 years.
What is spontaneous generation?
A guess that explains your observations.
What is a hypothesis.
The government of a cell.
What is a nucleus?
The process by which rock and soil are broken down and transported away by wind, water, plants, or chemicals.
What is erosion?
The cells produced in bone marrow.
What are red blood cells?
The study of past human life as revealed by preserved relics.
What is archaeology?
Give words for: The curiosity to understand, the desire to find something useful, and a process of machine that makes life better or easier.
What is science, applied science, technology.
The really big molecule that provides the information necessary to take a bunch of lifeless chemicals and turn them into a living system.
What is DNA?
The views that most of earth's geological features are the result of:
1. slow, gradual processes that have been at work for millions or billions of years
2. large-scale catastrophes such as floods, volcanic eruptions, etc.
What are uniformitarianism and catastrophism?
Your nervous system contains your brain, your spinal cord protected by your backbone, and nerves. List the basic unit of the nervous system in the brain. Hint: their cell bodies contain dendrites, a nucleus, organelles, myelin sheaths, and axons.
What are neurons?
Any part of an experiment that can affect the results of that experiment.
What is an experimental variable?
A category describing the lever, wheel and axle, pulley, inclined plane, wedge and screw.
What is a simple machine?
The pressure inside a plant cell due to the increasing size of the central vacuole.
What is turgor pressure?
The process of counting tree rings to determine the age of a tree.
What is dendrochronology?
This process forms your hair, nails, and the outer layer of your skin.
What is keratinization?
The formulator of the law of gravity and fields of calculus, optics and fluids.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton
A push or pull exerted on an object to change the object's velocity
What is force?
List at least three of the five kingdoms used to classify living organisms.
What are Monera (prokaryotic bacteria), Protista (eukaryotic cells like amoeba and algae), Fungi (mushrooms and other decomposers), Plantae, Animalia?
The three tests to determine if a document is an authentic historical document.
What are the internal, external, and bibliographic tests?
Your body "burns" simple sugars (glucose) with the help of oxygen. List the three products of this combustion.
What are energy, carbon dioxide, and water?
The 16th century astronomer who wrote a book describing his idea of the heliocentric system.
Who is Copernicus?
An experiment where neither the subjects nor the researchers know who is getting a drug.
What is double blind?
List the four criteria for life.
What are DNA, getting energy from surroundings, responding to changes in surroundings, reproduction?
When artifacts are found in the earth that is layered, the deepest layers hold the older artifacts.
What is the principle of superposition?
List at least two of the four lymphatic tissues that produce disease-fighting white blood cells and antibodies.
What are the spleen, tonsils, adenoids, and thymus gland?