Scientific Method/life Flashcards
(28 cards)
Characteristics of living things. The following is a required characteristic of all living things, true or false…
The need for an energy source
True
Characteristics of living things. The following is a required characteristic of all living things, true or false…
The ability to move
False
Characteristics of living things. The following is a required characteristic of all living things, true or false…
The ability to grow and develop
True
Characteristics of living things. The following is a required characteristic of all living things, true or false…
The ability to breathe oxygen
False
Characteristics of living things. The following is a required characteristic of all living things, true or false…
The ability to eat food
False. (Can absorb or use photosynthesis)
Characteristics of living things. The following is a required characteristic of all living things, true or false…
The ability to respond to the environment
True
Characteristics of living things. The following is a required characteristic of all living things, true or false…
A high level of organization
False (bacteria)
Characteristics of living things. The following is a required characteristic of all living things, true or false…
The ability to reproduce
True
Characteristics of living things. The following is a required characteristic of all living things, true or false…
Composed of cells
True
Characteristics of living things. The following is a required characteristic of all living things, true or false…
Possession of adaptations for survival in the environment
True
Characteristics of living things. The following is a required characteristic of all living things, true or false…
The ability to see and hear
False (plants)
The domains are…
Bacteria, Archaea, and eukarya
The five kingdoms are…
Animalia, plantae, fungi, monera, and Protista
Kingdom Protista is known as…
The junk drawer
The steps of the scientific method are…
- observation
- hypothesis
- production
- experiments
- data analysis and drawn conclusions
- communication of data and conclusions
The scientific method is…
And organized approach to learn how the natural world works
The two important principles the scientific method is based on are…
- The natural world have natural causes.
- Uniformity, the idea that the fundamental laws of nature operate the same way at all places and at all times
A compound light microscope is…
A microscope that shines right through a specimen and has two lenses to magnify an image
The four major parts of a compound light microscope are…
The eyepiece
Objective lens
Stage
And light source
Resolution
The power to show details clearly in an image
Electron microscopes
Used to examine cells in more detail or view cell parts or viruses
The two kinds of electron microscope are…
Scanning electron microscope (passes a beam of electrons over the specimen surface)
Transmission electron microscope (transmits of beam of a electrons through a very thinly sliced specimen)
Classification of organisms…
Cell type Cell number Energy requirement Motility So well composition
Cell type
Eukaryotic or prokaryotic
