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Science Inquiry
Diversity of Life
Ecology
Genetics
Catastrophic Events
100
What is a theory in science?
An explaination based on loads of evidence and observation.
100
What are the 5 Kingdoms of Life?
Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists, Bacteria
100
Place the following in order from smallest to greatest: community, ecosystem, individual, population
individual, population, community, ecosystem
100
What is the study of genetics?
a field that explores how traits are passed from one generation to the next
100
Name 3 different types of catastrophic events
Hurricane, Tornado, Earthquake, and Volcano
200
What is the first step in the Scientific Method?
Ask a Question
200
What is the basic unit of living things?
cells
200
What is a biotic factor in an ecosystem?
Biotic factors are living
200
What is the term that means that an organism is well adapted to its environment and lives to produce more offspring?
natural selection
200
How do winds form?
Uneven heating of earth's surfaces that create convection currents
300
What step comes before the other - composing an hypothesis or conducting the experiment?
Composing an hypothesis
300
Place the following words in the correct order (from smallest to greatest): organs, tissues, organ system, cells
cells, tissues, organs, organ system
300
What is the main source of energy for ecosystems?
the sun
300
Which is a homozygous allele? Aa BB Cc Da
BB
300
What is the science term that means spiraling air or water?
vortex
400
On a graph, is exponential growth shown through a straight or curved line? Draw an example.
curved
400
What part of a seed has the function to provide food for when it starts to germinate?
cotyledon
400
In a food chain, what is the name of the organisms that eat only plants?
producers
400
Which is a heterozygous allele? Aa BB cc Da
Aa
400
Why doesn't Pennsylvania have large earthquakes or volcanoes?
We do not live on a fault line or we do not live near a tectonic plate boundary.
500
What is the magnification of the objective lens, if the eye piece is 10x and the total magnification is 100x?
10x
500
What is the function of a flower on a plant?
to reproduce (to make other plants)
500
A species of squirrel can have 5 babies at a time. The femal squirrel will do this 3 times in one year. What was her reproductive potential?
15 baby squirrels
500
What is the probability (in a percent) that a species of dog will have blue eyes (bb)? Use a Punnett Square to cross Bb and Bb.
25%
500
What is the connection between global warming and the increase number of catastrophic events?
answers will vary :)