What is science?
Scientific Inquiry
What is life?
Classifying Organisms
Key Terms
100
Life Science or biology.
What is the study of living things.
100
A possible explanation to a set of observations or an answer to a scientific question.
What is a hypothesis?
100
The basic unit of function and structure in an organism.
What is a cell?
100
The process of grouping things based on their similarities.
What is classification?
100
Autotrophs.
What are living things that make their own food called?
200
Observations that have to do with numbers.
What are quantitative observations?
200
Scientific Inquiry.
What refers to the diverse ways in which scientists study the natural world and propose explanations based on the evidence they gather?
200
A cell's main energy source.
What are carbohydrates?
200
The scientific study of how things are classified?
What is taxonomy?
200
Facts, figures, and other evidence gathered through observations.
What is data?
300
Making Models.
What is the process of creating representations of complex objects or processes?
300
The two variables in a controlled experiment.
What are the manipulated and responding variables?
300
The mistaken idea that living things arise from nonliving sources.
What is Spontaneous Generation?
300
The six kingdoms.
What are fungi, protists, plants, animals, eubacteria, and archeabacteria?
300
A stimulus.
What is a change in an organism's surroundings that causes the organism to react?
400
The five skills scientists use to learn about the natural world.
What are observing, inferring, predicting, classifying, and making models?
400
The scientific attitudes that all successful scientists have achieved.
What are curiosity, honesty, open-mindedness, skepticism, and creativity?
400
The basic needs of living things.
What are water, food, living space, and stable internal conditions?
400
The levels of classification from least specific to most sppecific.
What are domains, kingdoms, phyla, classes, orders, families, genera and species.
400
Homeostasis.
What is the maintenance of stable internal conditions called?
500
The biologist who studied chimps.
Who is Jane Goodall?
500
The scientific process/method (steps).
What is posing a question, developing a hypothesis, designing an experiment, collecting and interpreting data, drawing conclusions and communicating?
500
The characteristics that all living things share.
What contain the chemicals of life, have cellular organization, use energy, respond to their surroundings, grow and develop, and reproduce?
500
The year and name of the naming system devised by Carlus Linnaeus that is still used today.
What is Binomial Nomenclature devised in the 1750s?
500
A nucleus.
What is the dense area in a eukaryotic cell that contains nucleic acids called?
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