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

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

How they are organized.

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 characteristic of life is the changes an organism goes through during its lifetime

What is development?

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 using pairs of descriptions 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
These are the two types of reproduction.

What are sexual and asexual

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

Linnaeus developed a two word naming system called this.

What is binomial nomenclature?

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

Name the 6 characteristics of life.

organized, grow and develop, reproduce, respond (to stimuli), maintain certain internal conditions (homeostasis), use energy

500
On this branched diagram, the closer organisms are to each other, the more they have in common.

What is a cladogram?

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?