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Microscope
Characteristics of Life
Life Vocabulary
Six Kingdoms
Classification
100

This uses multiple lenses to magnify the image of an object.

What is a compound microscope?

100
This makes up the organization of all living things.
What are cells?
100
This is another term for a "living thing".
What is organism?
100
This Kingdom is multicellular and autotrophic.
What is Kingdom Plantae?
100
These two classification levels make up a scientific name.
What are genus and species?
200

This term refers to how clear the image in a microscope is.

What is resolution?

200
This is the ultimate source of energy for all living things.
What is the Sun?
200

This is maintaining stable internal conditions, while outside conditions change (ex: a paramecium "pushing" water out of its contractile vacuoles).

What is homeostasis?

200
This Kingdom is multicellular and heterotrophic.
What is Kingdom Animalia?
200
This tool can be used to identify an unknown organism.
What is a dichotomous key?
300

This is the first person to create a microscope.

Who is Leuwenhoek?

300
This characteristic of life allows a species to continue to exist.
What is reproduction?
300
This is the change throughout a lifetime, which includes cell specialization.
What is development?
300
These Kingdoms are prokaryotic and unicellular.
What are Kingdoms Bacteria and Archae?
300
This classification level contains the most number of organisms (or is the broadest).
What is Domain?
400

This was the first person to look at cells under a microscope.

Who was Hooke?

400
This is how many characteristics of life something needs to be considered "living".
What is six?
400
This is a change in an environment that results in a reaction.
What is a stimulus?
400

These are the 6 kingdoms. 

What are bacteria, archaea, protista, fungi, plantae, and animalia?

400

The current classification method is called this.

What is systematics?

500

This is how the total magnification of a microscope is figured out. 

What is multiply the ocular lens by the objective lens.

500

The terms unicellular and multicellular are used to describe this characteristic of living things.

What is how they are organized?

500
This is a reaction based on a stimulus.
What is a response?
500

These are the three domains.

What are bacteria, archaea, and eukarya?

500
This is the number of Kingdoms in today's current classification system.
What is six?