He discovered that traits are passed from parents to offspring through genetic research with pea plants.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
200
Explanation that ties together many hypotheses and observations.
What is a scientific theory?
200
A group of individuals of the same species that live in a specific geographical area at the same time.
What is a population?
200
The measure of distance measured in mm, cm, meters or kilometers.
What is length?
200
A semi-permeable membrane that allows some materials in and out of the cell.
What is a cell membrane?
300
As an agricultural chemist, he discovered over 300 uses for peanuts, soybeans, and pecans.
Who is George Washington Carver
300
The part of the experiment that keeps all the factors the same except that it introduces the changed variable.
What is the experimental group?
300
A diagram that shows the feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
300
The measure of how much surface an object has using units such as mm squared and cm squared.
What is area?
300
The name given to warm-blooded animals that maintain a constant internal body temperature.
What is endothermic?
400
He founded the science of microbiology and proved that most infectious diseases are caused by micro-organisms. This became known as the "germ theory" of disease. He also developed the vaccine for rabies.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
400
The factor(s) that is(are) purposely kept the same to keep it a fair experiment.
What is the controlled variable?
400
The symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits while the host organism is harmed.
What is parasitism?
400
How much 3-dimensional space that makes up an object measured in units such as ml (liquid) or cm cubed (solid).
What is volume?
400
Responses that do not depend on the environment or experience.
What are innate responses?
500
He made a microscope and observed animacules in pond water.
Who is Anton Van Leeuwenhoek?
500
The part of the experiment that is left the same or is left in a normal condition and is used to compare results to the experimental group.
What is the control group?
500
An organism that feeds on smaller plant-eating organisms.
What is a secondary consumer?
500
The measure of the amount of matter in an object and is measured in units such as milligrams, grams, or kilograms.
What is mass?
500
There are three types of cells in this body system: cardiac, smooth and skeletal.