Scientific Inquiry
Classification of Organisms
Characteristics of Living Things
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100
The first step in the scientific process...the reason you decide to investigate!
What is ask a question?
100
This is a naming system that gives each organism a two-word scientific name.
What is binomial nomenclature?
100
The ability to make more living things.
What is reproduction?
100
What characteristic of life refers to how an organism takes in energy or food?
What is USE OF ENERGY?
200
An educated guess about what will happen in your investigation.
What is hypothesis?
200
A group of similar species.
What is a genus?
200
The cell in a unicellular organism gets bigger and its structures start doing specific functions. The multicellular organism develops more cells and its cells start doing specific functions.
What is GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT?
200
Which branch of science studies living things?
What is LIFE SCIENCE or BIOLOGY?
300
Looking at what happened during your investigation.
What is analyze results?
300
This tool gives a series of questions with two possible answers and is used to identify organisms.
What is a dichotomous key?
300
The ability of an organism to maintain stable internal conditions.
What is homeostasis?
300
Making a statement about something that you notice with your senses.
What is an OBSERVATION?
400
This is the step in which you test your hypothesis.
What is experiment?
400
This system is a branched diagram that shows how organisms are related.
What is a cladogram?
400
This characteristic of life tells whether an organism's structure is either multicellular or unicellular.
What is ORGANIZATION?
400
Making a statement about something you see that is a judgement or conclusion, using prior knowledge and experiences.
What is an INFERENCE?
500
This is the step in an investigation in which you explain if your hypothesis was correct or incorrect and why you think it was.
What is conclusion?
500
This way of classifying organisms uses all the evidence known about organisms and is the method we use today.
What is systematics?
500
The ability to react to internal or external changes in the environment of an organism.
What is RESPONSE TO STIMULI?
500
State the correct order of the classification of living things.
What is Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species?