Vocabulary terms
Characteristics of life
Scientific method
Microscope parts
Microscope use
100
An living thing is called this?
What is An organism.
100
The smallest component of all living things.
What is Cells.
100
What step is first in the scientific method?
What is Identify the problem/question.
100
The part of the microscope that you look through is called?
What is eyepiece(ocular lens).
100
You should always carry a microscope with?
What is two hands
200
An organisms ability to maintain a constant internal environment.
What is Homeostasis.
200
The ability for an organisms to change in size and develop.
What is Growth.
200
Before you conduct an experiment, you must make a prediction of the outcome which is called.
What is hypothesis.
200
This holds down the microscope slide.
What is Stage clips.
200
When using the microscope start and end with this power?
What is low.
300
A factor or change that causes an organism to respond.
What is Stimulus
300
The characteristic that describes a living things ability to change due to changes in its environment.
What is Adaptation.
300
What is the unchanging variable in an experiment that is used as a comparison called?
What is Control.
300
The hole in the stage that lets light shine through.
What is Stage opening.
300
To clean the lenses on the microscope, this should be used.
What is lens paper.
400
The study of life
What is biology.
400
If an organism reacts to stimulus, it posesses this characteristic of life.
What is Response.
400
The variable in an experiment that you change is called?
What is Manipulated or Independant variable.
400
The part that adjust the amount of light going through the stage opening.
What is diaphragm.
400
The type of microscope slide which you make yourself(like cheek or hair cells) in lab.
What is Wet mount slide.
500
A gradual change in an organism over time.
What is Adaptation or Evolution.
500
List four of the eight characteristics of life.
What is they are composed of cells, grow, reproduce, require energy, adapt, maintain homeostatis, respond to it's environment and contain genetic information(DNA)
500
Scientific knowledge is based on?
What is Observations.
500
The part that allows you to switch from one objective lens to another.
What is nosepiece or turret
500
The capability of our microscope being able to detect objects as small as .4 microns is called?
What is resolving power.