From bacteria to elephants and everywhere in between.
What are the organisms biologists study?
100
Organ systems to organs to tissues to cells.
What is organization?
100
The three major subdivisions: Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya.
What is domain?
100
An organized approach to learn how the natural world works.
What is the scientific method?
100
The standard unit of measurement in science.
What is the metric system?
200
Biology.
What is the study of life and all things living?
200
The smallest unit that can carry out life.
What is a cell?
200
Six divisions of domains: bacteria, archaea, animalia, plantae, fungi, and protista.
What is a kingdom?
200
Guessing what will happen based on a hypothesis.
What is predicting?
200
The increase in an object's size, not to be confused with its clarity.
What is magnification? (Clarity would by resolution.)
300
How living things function and change.
What do biologists study?
300
All the chemical reactions that take place in an organism. Hint: must use energy.
What is metabolism?
300
How cells use the information in DNA and the presence of organelles.
What are two unifying characteristics in life?
300
This group is set apart by an independent variable.
What is an experimental group?
300
If a chemical gets in your eye, you should do this.
What is washing your eye out at an eye wash station and telling Mr. Jerome?
400
The relevance of biology to society.
What is solving real world problems like improving the food supply, curing disease, and preserving the environment.
400
The maintenance of a stable level of internal conditions
What is homeostasis?
400
The branch of biology that studies organisms interacting with each other and the environment.
What is ecology?
400
This is highly tested and generally accepted principle, as opposed to a proposed explanation before an experiment.
What is a theory?
400
This microscope sends a beam of electrons over the surface of an organism and can magnify it up to 100,000 times, but can not see inside it.
What is a scanning electron microscope (SEM)?
500
The relevance of biology to daily life.
What is determining healthy foods and exercise amounts, and, studying how people get sick, the air, land, water, and food supply?
500
The requirements for an organism to be considered living. Hint: there are 8.
What are organization, made up of cells, response to stimuli, maintaining homeostasis, metabolism, growth and development, reproduction, and change through time?
500
The theory that organisms change over time, invented by Mr. Jerome's hero. BONUS: For an extra one-hundred points, this theory states that organisms with favorable traits are more likely to survive than others.
What is evolution? BONUS: What is natural selection?
500
The steps of the scientific method.
What is observation, hypothesis, prediction, experiment, and conclusion?
500
The four major parts of a compound light microscope.
What is eyepiece, objective lens, stage, and light source?