What is Science?
The Process of Discovery
The Study of Life
Cells and Life
The Kingdom of Life
100

The study of nature and the universe.

Science

100

A unit of measurement that is based on the number ten and multiples of ten.

Metric unit

100

The study of organisms too small to be seen with the eye alone.

Microbiology

100

The thin covering that holds a cell together.

Cell membrane

100

A tiny one-celled organism that is neither plant nor animal but may have characteristics of both.

Protist

200

To study a subject, usually using books and doing experiments.

Research

200

The basic metric unit of length.

Meter

200

The study of interactions between organisms and their environment.

Ecology

200

The part of a cell that controls all the other parts

Nucleus

200

A plantlike protist

Alga

300

Science discoveries and skills that are put to use.

Technology

300

The number of square units that is needed to cover a surface.

Area
300

A quality or feature of a person or thing

Characteristic

300

An enclosed space in a cell that stores food molecules, water, and waste

Vacuole

300

An animal-like protist

Protozoan

400

A device that produces a narrow, strong beam of light.

Laser

400

The number of cubic units that is needed to fill a space.

Volume

400

The part of food that an organism does not need after it uses the food for energy.

Waste
400

A cell part that helps the cell store and use energy

Mitochondrion
400
A tiny organism that has DNA but no true nucleus.

Moneran

500

The study of living things and how they behave.

Life Science

500

A metric unit to measure volume of a liquid or gas.

Liter

500

To make more of one's own kind of organism

Reproduce

500

The process cells use to release energy from food molecules.

Cellular Respiration

500

A tiny one-celled moneran seen only through a microscope.

Bacterium