Study of Life
Chemistry of Life
100

What is the study of living organisms and their interactions with one another and their environments?

Biology 

100

What is a substance consisting of two or more elements in a fixed ratio?

Compound

200

What describes a correlation between measured variables?

Scientific Law

200

What is the smallest unit of matter that retains all chemical properties of an element?

Atom 

300

Name the levels of organization

Organelles, cells, tissues, organs and organ systems, organisms/population/community, ecosystems, biosphere

300

What atomic particles have a mass close to one amu?

protons and neutrons

400

Name the 3 domains of life

Bacteria, archaea, eukarya

400

What decays spontaneously and gives off particles and energy?

Radioactive Isotopes

500

What is the logic used in hypothesis-based science?

Deductive reasoning

500

What is the property where the amount of heat that must be absorbed or lost for 1g of that substance to change its temperature by 1 degree C?

Specific Heat