What type of science?
What type of science studies rocks?
Geology
The branch of biology that studies plants is called this.
Botony
What does the Beaufort scale measure?
The wind.
He discovered the method of pasteurization which kills germs in food. As well, he was a pioneer in creating vaccines.
Louis Pasteur
Alfred Russel Wallace was one of the scientists who developed the theory of evolution. Who was the other one?
Charles Darwin
If you were studying the weather, you would be utilizing this branch of science.
Meteorology
The branch of biology that studies animals is called this.
zoology
A large tropical storm occurring in the Pacific ocean is called a typhoon. When occurring in the Atlantic these storms are called what?
Hurricanes
This scientist wrote the book "On the Origin of Species,' which expounds upon the theory of evolution.
Charles Darwin
The process whereby nature selects the animals most well adapted to survive is called what?
Natural selection
What type of science is also called life science?
Biology
What are the "building blocks" of life?
Cells
a thermometer is a device that measures what?
temperature
This man created the system of binomial nomenclature, the two name system used to name all species in the classification system.
Carl Linneus
As a young naturalist Darwin traveled to the Galapagos Islands in South America on which ship?
The Beagle
What type of science studies outer space?
Astronomy
In the term 'biology,' bio means what?
life
The two scales used to measure temperature are abbreviated F and C. What are they?
Fahrenheit
and Celsius
evolution
Common Descent is the part of Darwin's evolution theory which claims what?
That all creatures were descended from a common ancestor.
Earth Sciences include these branches of science. Earth Sciences study the physical characteristics of matter and its arrangement in the universe. Name at least one.
Geology
Meteorology
Astronomy
All living things are sorted into categories by scientists in a method known as what? This method was developed by Carl Linnaeus.
The classification system
A scientist who studies the weather is called this.
A meteorologist.
Darwin and Wallace were both scientists from this country.
Great Britain, or England.
Evolution was/is a controversial theory because it seemingly contradicts the creation story told in which religious book?