Nature of Science
Ecology
Environment
Evolution
Genetics
100
The process to answer questions in a systematic and empirical way.
What is scientific inquiry?
100
The development of land for houses and other buildings?
What is urban sprawl?
100
The name of the boat Charles Darwin used.
What is the HMS Beagle?
100
Finches, mockingbirds, and tortoises.
What are the species that Charles Darwin studied on the Galapagos islands?
100
A model used to determine the probability of all the possible phenotypes and genotypes of the offspring.
What is a Punnet square?
200
A possible explanation for an observation that can be tested by scientific investigations.
What is hypothesis?
200
A geographical area on Earth that contains ecosystems with similar biotic and abiotic features.
What is a biome?
200
Headaches, irritation of eyes and nose, irritation of throat, coughing, reduced lung function, increased asthma attacks, chest tightness, shortness of breath, fatigue, nausea and vomiting.
What are the effects of air pollution on the human body?
200
He proposed the Theory of Natural Selection?
Who is Charles Darwin?
200
A phosphate group, a nitrogen base and a sugar.
What is a nucleotide?
300
A logical explanation of an observation based on prior knowledge or experience.
What is inference?
300
A model that shows the amount of energy available in each link of a food chain.
What is energy pyramid?
300
Pollution from a single source that can be identified.
What is point source pollution?
300
"Survival of the fittest"
What is the Theory of Natural Selection?
300
Double helix
What is the structure of DNA?
400
The investigator, the subject or both, does not know which item they are testing.
What is blind study?
400
A close long term relationship between two species that usually involves an exchange of food or energy.
What is symbiosis?
400
Sudden rise of the population.
What is population explosion?
400
The preserved evidence of the activity of an organisms.
What is a trace fossil?
400
A letter to a word is a nucleotide to a __________.
What is a codon?
500
meter, kilogram, second, ampere, Kelvin, mole, candela
What is SI units?
500
Proteins, carbohydrates, fats and nucleic acids.
Where is carbon in living organisms?
500
Chlorofluorocarbons
What is CFC's?
500
A chart that divides Earth's history into different time units.
What is the Geologic Time Scale?
500
Makes proteins by reading RNA
What is the ribosome?
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