What is to investigate and understand the natural world
100
The work of scientists beings with
What is careful observations
100
The process by which organisms keep their internal conditions fairly constant is called
What is homeostasis
100
Uses a light to focus on the specimen, can magnify up to 1000x and can view dead or living specimens
What is light microscope
100
A person who studies animals
What is a zoologist
200
Good scientists are...
What is skeptics/open minded
200
Hypotheses may arise from
What is prior knowledge, logical inferences and/or imaginative guesses
200
A group of organisms of one type living in the same place
What is a population
200
The most important safety procedure when working in the lab
What is wash hands when complete
200
An individual living thing
What is an organsim
300
The five main senses that we can make observations with
What is vision, hearing, smell, taste, touch
300
A controlled experiment allows the scientist to isolate and test
What is a single variable
300
When birds fly south for the winter they are exhibiting this characteristic of life
What is responding to their environment
300
In the metric system, the basic unit of length is the
What is the meter
300
Not a list of facts, but a way of knowing. Using observations, questions and experiments to explain the natural world.
What is science
400
The variable which is changed in a controlled experiment
What is manipulated or independent variable
400
Scientists publish the details of important experiments so that
What is their work can be repeated, their experimental procedures can be reviewed and others can try to reproduce the results
400
A group of similar cells working together to perform a specific function
What is tissue
400
Technique that is used to separate the different cell parts
What is cell fractionation
400
The community and its non-living surroundings
What is ecosystem
500
The study of life and all aspects related to life
What is Biology
500
A well-tested explanation that unifies a broad range of observations is a(an)
What is theory
500
All living things exhibit these 8 characteristics
What is made of cells, able to reproduce, evolve, based on a genetic code, maintain homeostasis, grow and develop, respond to their environment, use material and energy
500
Information gathered from observations which includes characteristics or qualities of the variables
What is qualitative data
500
The largest level of organization that a biologist would study