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What is an organized way of gathering and using evidence to learn about the natural world?
Science
What do you call a proposed answer to a question that can be tested?
Hypothesis
What do you call the scientific study of the structure of atoms, how they combine with each other, and the reactions that take place between them?
Chemistry
What do you call organisms that cannot make their own food and must therefore consume other organisms to survive?
Heterotrophs
What do you call non-scientific answers to questions that cannot be tested?
Speculations
What is the scientific study of organisms and how they interact with each other?
Biology
What is the branch of science that involves the study of substances, energy, and the interactions between them, including subjects such as gravity, light, and time?
Physics
What is the order of the Scientific Method?
Ask a question
Do research
Formulate a hypothesis
Perform an experiment
Make a conclusion
What do you call the branch of science that involves the study of the planet and includes geology, oceanography, and meteorology?
Earth Science
What is the study of celestial bodies such as planets and galaxies?
Astronomy
What is the branch of science that involves the scientific study of how living things are classified?
Taxonomy
What kingdom is made mostly of unicellular organisms?
The protist kingdom is made up of mostly single celled organisms.
What is the two word naming system for living things that uses the genus (a grouping that contains similar organisms) as the first word, and a distinctive feature such as where it lives or its appearance as the second word?
Binomial Nomenclature
What do you call a unique group of similar organisms that can form families together?
Species
What is the highest level of classification that includes the three groups: Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya?
Domain
Define Fungi and give me an example of an organism in this kingdom.
The fungi kingdom includes molds and mushrooms whose members feed by absorbing dead and decaying matter.
What do you call organisms that produce their own food?
Autotrophs
What are the levels of classification from highest to lowest?
Domain
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
What are your academic affirmations? Do you know them off the top of your head?
Answers may vary
What day is the science fair?
February 14