What is it?
Eat This or That!
Life and Everything In It
Defining Moments
More Defining Moments
100

Converts energy and matter from outside sources.

What is Metabolism?

100

Organisms that eat only organisms other than plants

What are Carnivores?

100

1. All life forms contain DNA and reproduce.

2. All life forms have a method by which they extract energy from the surroundings and convert it into energy that sustains them (metabolism).

3. All life forms can sense changes in their surroundings and respond to those changes.

4. All life forms are made of cells.

5. All living things grow.

6. All living things maintain a stable internal environment by regulating the chemical processes occurring in them (homeostasis).

What are the six criteria for life?

100

A suggested, testable answer to a well-defined scientific question or a testable explanation of observations.

What is a Hypothesis?

100

Single Celled Organism

What is Unicellular?

200

Uses energy to produce large chemicals for life.

What is Anabolism?

200

Organisms that eat both plants and other organisms.

What are Omnivores?

200

An organism is classified as a carnivore.  Is it a heterotroph or an autotroph?  Is it a producer, consumer, or decomposer? 

It is a heterotroph and a consumer

200
Organisms that are internally warmed.

What is an Endotherm?

200

In a compound microscope, this would be the magnifying power achieved using a 10x objective lens and a 10x eyepiece lens.

What is 100?

300

Breaks down chemicals to produce energy 

What is Catabolism?

300

Organisms that eat only plants.

What are Herbivores?

300

This is considered the most basic unit of life.

What is a cell?

300

This is the maintenance of a stable internal condition.

What is Homeostasis?

300

A microscope that shines light through a specimen using two lenses to magnify an image.

What is a compound light microscope?

400

The process by which green plants and some other organisms use the energy of sunlight and simple chemicals to produce their own food.

What is Photosynthesis?

400

 Organisms that produce their own food.

What are Autotrophs?

400

A parent and offspring are studied.  Although there are many similarities between the parent and the offspring, there are also some differences.  This is the method in which these organisms reproduce.

What is sexual reproduction?

400

A logical interpretation based on prior knowledge, experience or evidence.

What is an Inference?

400
In the scientific method, this is what follows formulating a hypothesis.
What is conducting an experiment?
500

Special structures that allow living organisms to sense the conditions of their internal or external environment.

What are Receptors?

500

Organisms that depend on other organisms for their food.

What are Heterotrophs?

500

An abrupt and marked change in the DNA of an organism compared to that of its parents.

What is a mutation?

500

The variable manipulated by the experimenter (aka changed by the scientist).

What is the Independent (or manipulated) Variable?

500

This scientist finally proved that microorganisms cannot spontaneously generate.

Who is Louis Pasteur?

600

To gather data and test a hypothesis, scientists use what?

What is the Scientific Method?

600

An organism that feeds on dead organic material.

What are detritivores?

600

This type of observation looks at numbers such as counting or measuring.

What is Quantitative?

600

An explanation of the natural world that has been tested with a significant amount of data/evidence from multiple experiments/observations.

What is a Scientific Theory?

600

The idea that long ago, very simple life forms spontaneously appeared through chemical reactions.

What is Abiogenesis?