Studying God’s Living Creation
Your Backyard and Beyond
Scientific Classification
The Scientific Method
Scientific Reasoning
100
Observing nature carefully to discover the laws of creation for the benefit of mankind
What is the purpose of science?
100
This term describes animal life.
What is fauna?
100
The science of classification
What is taxonomy?
100
The Englishman who introduced the scientific method
Who is Sir Francis Bacon?
100
Reasoning from specific evidence to a more general conclusion
What is inductive reasoning?
200
The study of body structure is this branch of biology.
What is anatomy?
200
A living thing’s home within its environment
What is a habitat?
200
This is the primary basis for classifying living things.
What is body structure?
200
This is the scientific term for a sensible explanation to a problem.
What is a hypothesis?
200
A conclusion based on reasoning from evidence
What is inference?
300
The scientific term for living things
What is organisms?
300
The area between the highest and lowest points that the tide reaches
What is the intertidal zone?
300
The level of classification directly below class.
What is order?
300
The number of independent variables a good scientific experiment will include
What is one independent variable?
300
The term for the study of reasoning
What is logic?
400
The stable internal condition that living thing must maintain to survive
What is homeostasis?
400
These are hot springs found on the ocean floor
What are hydrothermal vents?
400
This term refers to a distinct type of living thing.
What is species?
400
The factor being tested in an experiment is present in all the other groups but absent in this one.
What is a control group?
400
This kind of reasoning uses general evidence to come to a more specific conclusion.
What is deductive reasoning?
500
The process in which cells combine substances from food with oxygen to make energy
What is cellular respiration?
500
This term describes a living thing in an inactive state, like hibernation, that it enters to conserve energy.
What is dormant?
500
The Father of Taxonomy
Who is Carolus Linnaeus?
500
Conditions in an experiment that are the same for all groups
What are controlled variables?
500
A person who studies logic
What is a logician?