Scientific Method
Microscopes
Life Characteristics
Metric Units Used in Labs
Organization of Life
100

The first step in the scientific method.

What is an observation?

100

Allows different amounts of light to enter the microscope.

What is the diaphragm?

100

An organism made up of one cell.

What is unicellular?

100

Used to measure the length of something.

What are centimeters?

100

Life begins with this.

What are cells?

200

There should be one of these in a good experiment.

What is a variable?

200

This is the microscope we used in class.

What is a compound light microscope?

200

The smallest living unit of an organism.

What are cells?
200

Liters.

What is volume?

200

The very first step in the organization of life.

What is the atom?

300

Factors that don't affect the outcome of an experiment.

What is a control variable?

300

The lowest-powered lens.

What is the scanning lens?
300

Organisms do this to pass on their genetic traits.

What is reproduction?

300

You measured these with a scale in class.

What are grams?

300

Small structures that exist within cells.

What are organelles?

400

The scientific method shows us this.

What is understanding how the world works?

400

The high-power lens magnifies objects this much.

What is 400 times?

400

Simple cells that don't contain a nucleus and are membrane-bound.

What is a prokaryote?

400

Used to measure temperature.

What is Celcius?

400

Cells combine to make these.

What are tissues?

500

The first person to give us the scientific method and the word 'hypothesis'.

What is Abu 'Ali al-Hasa?

500

If you use this setting with high power, your slide can break.

What is a coarse adjustment?

500

Water balance, temperature, and pH.

What are stable internal conditions?

500

Formula to convert Fareignheit to Celcius.

What is (Fareignheit - 32) x 5/9 = Celcius?
500

Largest form in the organization of life.

What is a biosphere?

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