Living vs Non-Living
General Science
Questions and Examples
Classify It!
Kingdoms
100

What is another name for living and non-living things?

Living is biotic and Non-living is abiotic

100

Which step of the scientific method is considered an educated guess 

Hypothesis

100

What is the IV and DV in the following example: 

An experiment that tests how quickly different temperatures will dissolve sugar cubes

IV: Temperature of substance
DV: time it takes to dissolve sugar cubes

100

What is a common way scientists organize living and non living things ? 

Classification Tree

100

What are the 5 kingdoms of living things?

1) monera

2) protista

3) fungi

4) Plantae

5) animalia

200

What is another name for a community of plants, animals, and other organisms interacting with each other and nonliving things in a particular environment

Ecosystem

200

What is known as a series of steps that help find answers or information to questions about the natural world?

The scientific method

200

What kind of relationship is given in the example: wind is one of the forces responsible for soil erosion

Abiotic and Abiotic

200

What does classify mean?

  • To classify things means to place them in different categories, or groups

200

1) Bacteria belong is which kingdom?

2) One-celled organisms belong in which kingdom?

3) mushrooms belong in which kingdom?

1) Monera

2) Protists

3) fungi

300

Give an example of an abiotic and biotic factor

- Abiotic- temperature, air, water, soil, rocks, minerals, light, etc. 

- Biotic- trees, plants, animals, grass, bacteria

300

What are the 6 steps of the scientific method in order

1) question

2) Hypothesis 

3) experiment

4) analyze

5) conclusion 

6) communicate

300

Write a hypothesis for the given question: 

How does level of activity affect one’s breathing rate?

  1. IF the level of activity increases then the breathing rate decreases

300

What is the word that means: the science of naming and classifying organisms 

taxonomy

300

What are two categories that plants are divided into?

- vascular 

-nonvascular

400

What are three types of relationships that can exist in an ecosystem? Describe each

  1. Biotic and Biotic

    1. Two living things interacting with each other

  2. Abiotic and Abiotic

    1. Two nonliving things interacting with one another

  3. Biotic and Abiotic

    1. One nonliving thing and one living thing interacting with each other

400

What are control variables?

Variables that are kept constant throughout an experiment to ensure results are not affected by any other variable

400

Identify 2 control variables in the example: 

-How does water affecct the size of a raisin?

- same type or brand of raisin

- same size of raisin to start

- same type of water to start 

- same container

400

What is a taxon?

 is another name for each level of the level of classification for the living things (ex. Species is a taxon, genus is a taxon)

400

What are two categories are monera split into?

archaebacteria

eubacteria

500

What are 7 characterisitics of living things?

  1. Are made up of one or more cells

  2. Breathe  (plants take in co2 and release oxygen, animals are opposite)

  3. Require energy(through some type of food)

  4. Respond to their environment (move and respond to things around them)

  5. Grow and develop (life cycle)

  6. Reproduce (offspring/babies)

  7. Excrete- get rid of waste ( we get rid of CO2)

500

What is the difference between independent and dependent variables?

Independent variable: The cause portion of the testable question, the variable you purposely change

Dependent variable: the effect portion of the testable question, the thing you measure

500

Describe our penny lab. What did we find out?

  • n our penny lab we worked through each step of the scientific method to find out what the maximum number of water drops you can fit on a penny without the water spilling 

  • We made predictions, conducted the test, and found the range for three trials. 

  • We knew if the range of data was a larger number than our experiment was less accurate. 

  • After each trial, we thought of ways to improve our next trial by determining more variables we could control to ensure a fair test 

  • With each new trial we found our results got more accurate because we took more care in ensuring we had taken into consideration all variables that may be affecting our results

  • We found out the results are more accurate when we control variables that may affect our results

  • In the end our range got very small showing we had accurate results.

500

Name all seven of the levels of classification of living things 


500

What are the 2 categories of animals and what can be found in each

1) invertebrate-- worms, molluscs, sponges, antropods

2) vertebrates-- mammals, reptiles, birds, amphibians, fish