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Scientific Method
Lab Equipment and Safety
Living vs Non-Living
Six Kingdoms and
Seven Taxa
Binomial Nomenclature and Dichotomous Keys
100
Detailed noticing or perception with the five senses.
What is an observation?
100
What you should do if you have long hair and are dealing with chemicals or flames.
What is tying your hair back?
100
All living things contain this molecule that stores all genetic information.
What is DNA?
100
The largest classification group or taxa.
What is a kingdom?
100
A scientist that pioneered the use of binomial nomenclature and classification of organisms based on similar structures.
What is Linnaeus?
200
A judgement based on an observation. Ex. One animal is trying to eat the other.
What is an inference?
200
A measuring tool for volume.
What is a graduated cylinder?
200
A wind up toy and a car are not alive but share this characteristic with living things.
What is using and converting energy?
200
The Latin name of the kingdom that has eukaryotic, sessile autotrophs.
What is Plantae?
200
The first part of a scientific name represents this taxon.
What is Genus?
300
An explanation that can be tested.
What is a hypothesis?
300
A measuring tool for mass.
What is a triple beam balance?
300
All living things are made up of this basic unit. Some of these units have nuclei; some do not.
What is a cell?
300
The kingdom that contains sessile, heterotrophs that have cells walls. Many are decomposers.
What is Fungi?
300
When typing a scientific name, you must do this.
What is using italics?
400
A procedure or test done to test a hypothesis.
What is an experiment?
400
A type of glassware with straight sides, a wide body, and a curved lip for pouring.
What is a beaker?
400
Living things respond to this.
What is a stimulus?
400
A group of organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring.
What is a species?
400
The number of answers each question on a dichotomous key has.
What is two?
500
The 5 scientific method steps in the order that we learned in class.
What is 1. observation, 2. problem or question, 3. hypothesis, 4. experiment, and 5. analysis and conclusion?
500
What you should do first if you get a chemical in your eye.
What is wash out your eye with water?
500
An example of a non-living thing that has DNA but no cells.
What is a gummy candy?
500
The seven taxa in order from largest to smallest.
What is Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species?
500
What is the reason scientists would choose to use a dichotomous key instead of a field guide?
What is saving the time of having to look through hundreds of pictures in a field guide?