Types of Scientific Inquiry
The search for information and explanations of natural phenomena.
What is Inquiry?
The lowest level of organization that can perform all activities required for life.
What is the cell?
Life can be studied at different levels, from __________ to the entire living planet.
What are molecules?
__________ between components that make up living organisms are crucial to their smooth operation.
What are Interactions?
There are _____ Domains of Life.
What are 3?
Deals with descriptions.
Data can be observed, but not measured.
Examples: Colors, textures, smells, tastes, appearance, beauty, etc.
Quality.
What is Qualitative Data?
Describe growth and development.
What are all living things grow and increase in size using cell division?
All life on Earth and all the places where life exists: air, water, and land.
What is Biosphere?
Cells are able to coordinate various chemical pathways through a mechanism called __________.
What is feedback?
The Three Domains of Life.
What are Domain Bacteria, Domain Archaea, and Domain Eukarya?
Deals with numbers.
Data which can be measured.
Ex: Length, height, area, volume, weight, speed, time, temperature, humidity, sound levels, cost, members, ages, etc.
Quantity.
What is Quantitative Data?
What is living things will make changes in response to a stimulus in their environment to survive.
What is Responding to their Environment?
A localized group of organisms that belong to the same species.
What is a population?
Product increases, process slows down or stops.
What is Negative Feedback?
__________ and __________ are prokaryotic.
What are Bacteria and Archaea?
Describe Inductive Reasoning.
What is logic used in descriptive science (specific to general)?
Describe change through time (evolution).
What is living things evolve in order to survive?
Describe organelles.
What are the components of cells?
Product increases, process increases.
What is positive feedback?
Plants, animals, fungi, and all other forms of life are __________.
What is Eukaryotic?
Describe Deductive Reasoning.
What is logic used in hypothesis-based science (general to specific)?
Name all 7 characteristics of ALL living things.
What is...
Composed of cells, complex and ordered, respond to their environment, can grow, develop, and reproduce, obtain and use energy, maintain internal balance, and allow for evolutionary adaptation.
Name the Levels of Life on our Planet from largest to smallest.
What is...
Biosphere (largest), Ecosystem, Community, Population, Organisms, Organ Systems, Organs, Tissues, Cells, Organelles, Molecules, and Atoms (smallest).
The most common form of regulation in living organisms is __________ feedback, in which the response reduces the initial stimulus.
What is Negative Feedback?
Other Eukaryotes were formerly grouped into a kingdom called __________, now grouped into many separate kingdoms.
What is Protista?