final exam

Question 1

What is the first step to the scientific method?

Answer 1

Defining a Problem

Question 2

What is the second step to the scientific method?

Answer 2

Observe the Problem

Question 3

What is the third step to the scientific method?

Answer 3

Make a Hypothesis

Question 4

What is the fourth step to the scientific method?

Answer 4

Make a Prediction

Question 5

What is the fifth step to the scientific method?

Answer 5

Test the Hypothesis

Question 6

What is the sixth step to the scientific method?

Answer 6

Make a Conclusion

Question 7

How do observations occur?

Answer 7

By collecting data

Question 8

What is a hypothesis?

Answer 8

A hypothesis is an educated guess based on what has been observed through the scientific method.

Question 9

How are predictions made?

Answer 9

By gathering information and data which helps predict outcomes of the hypothesis.

Question 10

How do scientists test hypothesis?

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By creating experimented based on the hypothesis to see if they expected results are found.

Question 11

What are the three main outcomes of a scientific experiment?

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The test proves the hypothesis correct, incorrect, or inconclusive.

Question 12

What is a scientific theory?

Answer 12

Theories are well-tested explanations of a phenomena that unifies a wide range of observations and hypotheses.

Question 13

What is an agronomist?

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someone who studies the variety of plants, pests, diseases, and pesticides found in agricultural crops.

Question 14

What is an ornithologists?

Answer 14

someone who studies birds and their diseases

Question 15

What is a biologist?

Answer 15

someone who studies living things in the environment.

Question 16

What is a botanist?

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someone who studies the plant life in an environment

Question 17

What is a chemist?

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someone who studies chemicals and the effects of pollution in the air, water, and soil.

Question 18

What is an entomologist?

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Someone who studies insects, spiders, snails, and other “bugs” of an environment.

Question 19

What is a conservationists?

Answer 19

someone who studies a location and determines the steps needed to protect the area from being destroyed or polluted.

Question 20

What is a paleontologists?

Answer 20

someone who studies fossils of ancient life forms, and how they survive in different time periods.

Question 21

What is a hydrologist?

Answer 21

someone who studies rain, lakes, and rivers.

Question 22

What is an ichthyologist?

Answer 22

someone who studies life in the ocean.

Question 23

What is the thermosphere?

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the outermost layer which contains extremely high temperatures.

Question 24

What is the mesosphere?

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• the second layer that is the coolest
• meteors are seen entering earth’s atmosphere

Question 25

What is the stratosphere?

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- third layer - commercial jets are seen - includes the ozone layer

Question 26

What is the troposphere?

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-the last layer - humanity lives - contains all weather that exist

Question 27

What is a hierarchy?

Answer 27

a graded ranking of organisms which is critical for proper ordering of the structure of life.

Question 28

What are molecules?

Answer 28

groups of atoms

Question 29

What are atoms?

Answer 29

the smallest units of matter

Question 30

What are atoms made of?

Answer 30

subatomic particles (e.g. neutrons, protons, electrons)

Question 31

What are organelles?

Answer 31

proteins that come together to form the inner components of a cell

Question 32

What are cells?

Answer 32

the smallest structure that makes up a living organism

Question 33

What is tissue?

Answer 33

a group of cells that work together in a similar function

Question 34

What are organs?

Answer 34

A group of tissues that work together to perform a similar function

Question 35

What are systems?

Answer 35

A group of organs that work independently but together to perform a specific function

Question 36

What is an organism?

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A group of systems that work together to create a life form

Question 37

What is a population?

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A group of the same organisms living and working together for protection, food, and shelter.

Question 38

What is a community?

Answer 38

Several populations of different organisms that live together and interact with each other in a specific environment.

Question 39

What is an ecosystem?

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Groups of communities living in the same geographic locations

Question 40

What is a biome?

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A large area of land that is characterized by the plant and animal communities that live there

Question 41

What is a biosphere?

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All areas of the planet that will support life

Question 42

What is the solar systems?

Answer 42

The group of nine planets and other matter that orbit the sun

Question 43

What is the galaxy?

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A system of stars orbiting a common center of gravity

Question 44

What is the Universe?

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All the galaxies, stars, comets, meteors, and planets.

Question 45

What are autotrophs?

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Organisms that can produce their own food energy by using sunlight, carbon, and inorganic chemicals.

Question 46

What are heterotrophs?

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Organisms that must consume other organisms to absorb their food energy.

Question 47

What are carnivores?

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Organisms that eat meat for their food source with teeth that tear away at meat.

Question 48

What are herbivores?

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organisms that eat plants as their only food sources.

Question 49

What are carnivores?

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Organisms that eat meat for their food source with teeth that tear away at meat.

Question 50

What are omnivores?

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Organisms that eat both meat and plants as their food source.

Question 51

What are producers?

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Autotrophs (e.g. plants, trees, algae)

Question 52

What are consumers?

Answer 52

heterotrophs

Question 53

What are the subdivisions of heterotrophs?

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- Primary Consumers: Herbivores - Secondary Consumers: Carnivores and Omnivores - Tertiary Consumers: Carnivores that eat other carnivores - Quaternary Consumers: Carnivores that are at the top of the food chain and can eat carnivores that eat other carnivores.

Question 54

adaptations

Answer 54

How life forms change over time and learn to adapt to continue living in the environment

Question 55

endemic

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Organisms confined to living in a geographic region due to natural barriers

Question 56

biotic

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Parts of an ecosystem that are living; includes plants and animals

Question 57

abiotic

Answer 57

Parts of an ecosystem that are not living; includes soil and rocks

Question 58

bioremediaiton

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Using enzymes or microorganisms to restore a contaminated environment to its original state

Question 59

Biodiversity

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Refers to the variety of life forms that exist now or in the past

Question 60

Species

Answer 60

A classification of organisms that have common characteristics

Question 61

Hydrosphere

Answer 61

All the bodies of water on the Earth’s surface