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The study of living and once living things.
What is Biology?
The total magnification when one lens of a light microscope magnifies 10x and the other magnifies 43x.
What is 430 magnification?
The SI unit for length?
What is a Meter (m)?
Scientists measure temperature with this scale, in degrees.
What is the Celsius scale?
A series of 5 steps scientists use to solve a problem
What is the scientific method?
A person who studies living and once-living things.
What is a biologist?
The amount of space a substance occupies
What is volume?
The 10 smaller units a meter is divided into?
What are Decimeters (dm)?
The freezing point of water on the Celsius scale
What is 0 degrees?
Something that causes the changes observed in an experiment
What is a variable?
Anthropology, Ecology, Entomology, Paleontology, and Ichthyology
What are some of the types of Biologists or fields of Biology?
The SI unit of mass
What is the kilogram (kg)?
The 10 units decimeters can be divided into
What are Centimeters (cm)?
The boiling point of water on the Celsius scale
What is 100 degrees?
The standard for comparing results
What is a control?
A tool used by a biologist where light passes through the object being looked at and then through two or more lenses, and has one eyepiece.
What is a light microscope?
A measuring system based on units of 10, used by scientist all over the world.
What is the International System of
Units ?
The 10 units that centimeters can be divided by, and are the smallest units of measurement in the SI system?
What are millimeters (mm)?
A statement that can be tested
What is a hypothesis?
A hypothesis that has been tested again and again by many scientists, with similiar results each time
What is a theory?
This tool is used for viewing large objects and things through which light cannot pass, such as insects, and has two eyepieces.
What is a stereomicroscope?
The SI unit of length.
What is a meter?
The period between two events
What is time?
Testing a hypothesis using a series of steps with controlled conditions
What is an experiment?
Used to solve many everyday problems by scientists
What is technology?