A formal way of "seeing" what happens defines this first step of the scientific method
What is an observation?
100
Collectively, all of the Earth's ecosystems make up this organizational level
What is the biosphere?
100
This is the theory that accounts for both the diversity and the unity of all living things
What is evolution?
100
This contains specific information for how an organism is to be ordered and is made up of long molecules of DNA
What is a gene?
200
The capacity to do work defines this term
What is energy?
200
These five steps make up the scientific method
What is observation, hypothesis, experiment, conclusion and scientific theory?
200
This type of population has the ability to modify existing ecosystems, sometimes greatly upsetting the ecosystem's nutrient cycles
What is the human population?
200
These are traits that increase an individual's chance of surviving and reproducing in a particular environment
What is adaptations?
200
This is the sequence of four increasing biological organizations
What is atom, molecule, organelle, and cell?
300
The ability to capture solar energy and carry on a process that transforms solar energy into the chemical energy or organize nutrient molecules makes up this chemical process
What is photosynthesis?
300
This type of reasoning is used to make a hypothesis based on previously established observations
What is inductive reasoning?
300
This is an ecosystem that is built up from calcium carbonate skeletons of sea animals which provide a habitat for many animals including jellyfish, sponges, snails, crabs, sea turtles and moray eels
What is the coral reef?
300
This is the scientific principle/law that is based on the theory that through mutations introducing variations among members of a population, a species is sculpted to fit its environment and can create new species from an existing one
What is natural selection?
300
Organisms of the same specifics in a particular area defines this level of biological organization
What is a population?
400
The maintenance of this, made up of temperature, moisture level, acidity, and other physiological factors, must remain within the tolerance range of the organism for it to survive
What is homeostasis?
400
This is considered the factor of the experiment being tested
What is the experimental variable? or
What is the Independent variable?
400
The death or loss of a species or larger classification category defines this term
What is extinction?
400
These are, from most to least inclusive, the levels of taxonomic classification of life on Earth
What is What is Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species?
400
This maintains the great pattern of organization in nature
What is the flow of energy from the sun?
500
If you slice apart a living plant and rearrange the pieces, the plant is no longer functional as a complete plant, because it depends on the exact order of those pieces is an example of what kind of quality?
What is emergent properties?
500
This kind of scientific investigation gathers numerical information from various sources and then tries to make sense out of it, for the purpose of coming to a conclusion
What is a statistical study?
500
This has been estimated to be as high as 15 million species on our planet, and it is made up of the total number and relative abundance of species, the variability of their genes, and the different ecosystems in which they live
What is biodiversity?
500
These are from the domain of eukarya that absorb, photosynthesize or ingest food; are made up of complex single cell(s); and examples include algae, protozoans, slime molds, and water molds
What is protists?
500
An atom, the smallest unit of an element, is composed of these three things