Definitions
The scientific term for living things is
What is an organism?
What does fauna describe?
What are animals?
General term for a water environment
What is Aquatic environments?
The science of classification
What is Taxonomy?
The Englishman who introduced the scientific method
Who is Sir Francis Bacon?
The three main steps of any scientific method are hypothesizing, ______, and experimenting
What is observing/observation?
What is the scientific term for a sensible explanation to a problem?
What is a hypothesis?
Environment with trees
What is arboreal environment?
Who is the father of taxonomy?
Who is Carl Linnaeus?
The scientific term for facts about nature is
What is data?
A conclusion based on reasoning from evidence is an
What is an inference?
What is the study of body structure?
What is anatomy?
Environment containing sees and oceans
What is Marine environments?
What are the six kingdoms?
What is Kingdom Plantae, Kingdom Animalia, Kingdom Fungi, Kingdom Protista, Kingdom Eubacteria, Kingdom Archaebacteria?
How many independent variables will a good scientific experiment include?
What is one?
The stable internal condition that a living thing must maintain to survive is called
What is homeostasis?
What is the purpose of studying science?
What is using creation for man's benefit, discovering the laws of creation, or observing nature carefully?
Includes meadow, desert, and mountain environments
terrestrial environment
What two divisions of the classification system make up the scientific name?
What kind of reasoning uses general evidence to come to a more specific conclusion?
What is deductive reasoning?
The sum of all the chemical processes of life is called
What is metabolism?
In what process do cells combine substances from food with oxygen to make energy?
What is cellular respiration?
The area between the highest and lowest points that the tide reaches
What is the intertidal zone?
What level of classification is below class?
What is Order?
Josiah is performing an investigation to determine if grasshoppers are more attracted to some colors than other colors. He has read about grasshoppers and learned that their eyes can distinguish red from green. What is the next thing Josiah should do?