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An organized way of studying things and finding answers to questions.
What is science?
An explanation of a naturally occurring phenomenon that appears to be true all of the time.
What is a theory?
The ability of a living thing to maintain relatively stable conditions within itself.
What is homeostasis?
Greek philosopher who classified animals based on their physical traits.
Who is Aristotle?
The capital of British Columbia.
What is Victoria?
A method of systematically applying scientific principles to solve a problem.
What is the scientific method?
A statement about how things work in nature that appears to be true all the time.
What is a scientific law?
All of the changes that take place during the life of an organism.
What is development?
A similar species.
What is a genus?
Water's tendency to compress into the smallest area possible.
What is surface tension?
An educated guess that can be tested with an experiment.
What is a hypothesis?
A living thing.
What is an organism?
An organism's ability to create more of its kind.
What is reproduction?
The idea that living things can only come from other living things.
What is biogenesis?
The capital of Ancient Greece.
What is Athens?
An element in an experiment that does not change.
What is a control/constant?
The smallest unit of an organism that carries out the functions of life.
What is a cell?
Blood is about 90% composed of this.
What is water?
The two-word naming system for classifying animal life.
What is binomial nomenclature?
Using meters as a base unit, name all of the units of the metric system in order.
What is kilometer, hectometer, dekameter, meter, decimeter, centimeter, and millimeter?
Something that changes in an experiment.
What is a variable?
Anything that causes a change in an organism.
What is a stimulus?
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The idea that living things came from non-living things.
What is spontaneous generation?
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Swedish naturalist who devised the current system of animal classification.
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Name the eight levels of animal classification in order.
What are domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species?