Purpose of Science
The study of the body structure
What is anatomy?
The level of classification directly below class
What is order?
The definition of the term fauna
What is animals?
The number of independent variables a good scientific experiment includes
What is one independent variable
The Englishmen who introduced the scientific method
Who is Sir Francis Bacon?
Specific evidence to a more general conclusion
What is inductive reasoning?
General term for a water environment.
What is an aquatic environment?
The term that refers to a distinct type of living things
What is species?
The scientific term for a sensible explanation to a problem
What is a hypothesis?
The stable internal condition that a living thing must maintain to survive
What is homeostasis?
Some experiments include a group that is used as a standard for comparison. This factor that is being tested is present in the other groups but is absent in this group
What is the control group?
The father of taxonomy
Who is Carolus Lennaeus?
A conclusion based on reasoning from evidence
Includes meadows, deserts, and mountain environments
What is terrestrial environment?
This is not a purpose for science
What is the explanation of human society?
This is the primary basis for classifying living things
What is body structure?
A photo of a dog provides a partial representation of what dogs are like, this is an example of a scientific ...
What is a model?
Conditions in an experiment that are the same for all groups
What is a controlled variable?
Substances in food that provide living things with energy
What is nutrients?
Uses general evidence to come to a more specific conclusion
What is deductive reasoning?
The seas and the oceans
What are marine environments?
The scientific term for living things
What is organisms?
The process in which cells combine substances from food with oxygen to make energy
What is cellular respiration?
Describes a living thing that is in an inactive state, such a hibernation, in which to conserve energy
What is dormant or dormancy?
Safety rules of a science lab that should NOT be followed
What is tasting chemicals?
Hot springs on the ocean floor
What are hydrothermal vents?
Three main steps of any scientific method
What is hypothesizing, observing, and experimenting
Areas full of trees
What is an arboreal environment?
The sum of all the chemical processes of life
What is metabolism?
The scientific term for facts about nature
What is data?
The smallest unit of living things that can be said to be alive
What is a cell?
Josiah is performing an investigation to determine if grasshoppers are more attracted to some colors than to other colors, he learns that grasshoppers eyes can distinguish red from green, this is what happens after he determines this
What is suggesting an idea to test?
He developed the modern definition of the word species
Who is John Ray?
A scientific idea that has survived many experiments and observations without being proven false
What is a law?
The area between the highest and lowest points that the tide reaches
What is a tide pool?
What is logic?
Aptenodytes forsteri is the scientific name for the emperor penguin, forsteri is this part of the name
What is the species name?
Part of an environment's flora
What are plants?
This statement best explains why animal tracks can be useful in your study of living things
What are tracks that provide a way to observe animals that are difficult to find?
If you are studying the eating habits of sea snails, this is the branch of biology you are studying
What us zoology?
Bilateral, radial, and asymmetrical
What are the three types of symmetry?
A living thing's home within it's environment
What is a habitat?
A plant or animal that consists of many cells with different purposes
What is a multicellular plant or animal?
Living things active at night
What is nocturnal?
Heat under or below the surface
What is hypothermal?
The kingdom that includes the bald eagle
What is Animalia?