Biology Chapters 13-15

Name that term(s)

100

A tentative, untested solution to a scientific problem

Hypothesis

200

In a controlled experiment, all factors are identical except the one being tested, is called what kind of variable?

Independent

300

Living factors in the environment

Biotic factors

400

The classification used to describe one organism's feeding relationship to other organism in its ecosystem.

Trophic Level

500

The "occupation" or function of an organism in an ecosystem

Niche

Name That Idea/Principle

100

The belief that that science can find answers for all of life's problems

Scientism

200

The idea that living things can arise from nonliving things

Spontaneous Generation

300

What is the principle that animals or plants well suited to their environment are more likely to survive than organisms poorly suited to their environment?

Natural Selection

400

What principle states that all organisms are composed of cells or cell products and that all cells come from preexisting cells?

Cell theory

500

The philosophy that promotes the idea that the universe consists of nothing but matter and energy and has no spiritual or supernatural aspects

Materialism

Who am I?

100

I am known as the Father of Anatomy. I wrote a monumental book known as the Fabrica.

Andreas Vesalius

200

I am a Dutch naturalist who devoted my life to microscopy.

Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

300

I am a living lobe-finned fish that evolutionists once considered a transitional form between fish and amphibians.

Coelacanth

400

I am a British naturalist who was primarily responsible for popularizing the idea that all life evolved from a common ancestor.

Charles Darwin

500

I am a fully human "human ancestor" named after the cave where my fossils were first found.

Cro-Magnon man

Toss Up

100

The simple-to-complex sequence that evolution predicts should appear in the fossil record is called this.

Geologic Column

200

We feed on detritus by breaking it down into molecules that become part of the soil.

Decomposers

300

We are organisms that feed on decaying organic matter but cannot break it down into soil components. 

Detritivores

400

What is the sudden outburst of living things of great variety in the fossil record, showing no evidence of evolution?

Cambrian Explosion

500

The name for the symbiotic relationship in which both organisms benefit

Mutualism

Name that place

100

The region where a particular organism normally lives; the organism's home

Habitat

200

The area between the highest and lowest tides along the coast

Intertidal Zone

300

The term for the region identified by its climax vegetation and distinctive animal life

Biome

400

Name the biome characterized by harsh winters, fairly long summers, and little or no permafrost

Northern Coniferous Forest

500

The changes within a particular kind of organism because of variations in the gene pool with in a population is called this.

Speciation