Segment 1 - Study Of Living Things

Question 1

What is hierarchy?

Answer 1

A way of dividing and organizing topics for studying

Question 2

What is the smallest level of hierarchy?

Answer 2

Atoms

Question 3

What is the highest level of hierarchy?

Answer 3

The biosphere

Question 4

What are emergent properties?

Answer 4

Characteristic gained when an entity becomes part of a bigger system

Question 5

What is a biome?

Answer 5

Defines specific areas of the world

Question 6

What is an example of a biome?

Answer 6

The Amazon rainforest
The Arctic tundra
The African grasslands

Question 7

Systems biology is the study of interactions within parts of the environment and how they are affected by change. True or False?

Answer 7

TRUE

Question 8

What are the characteristics of living things?

Answer 8

Cellular composition, response/adaptation, reproduction, metabolism, and evolution

Question 9

What is a unicellular organism?

Answer 9

Contains one cell

Question 10

Unicellular organisms reproduce how?

Answer 10

Asexually

Question 11

What is homeostasis?

Answer 11

The ability to maintain or balance
internal conditions

Question 12

How do plants metabolize energy?

Answer 12

Photosynthesis

Question 13

What is evolution?

Answer 13

Random mutations that allow for “survival of the fittest” in changing environments

Question 14

What are the 3 domains of life?

Answer 14

Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukaryota

Question 15

What is the phylogenetic tree?

Answer 15

Shows the 3 accepted domains of life

Question 16

What is bacteria?

Answer 16

A prokaryotic organism that reproduces asexually and contains ester-linked lipids.

Question 17

What is archaea?

Answer 17

A prokaryotic organism that reproduces asexually and contains ether-linked lipids in contrast to bacteria

Question 18

What is Eukarya?

Answer 18

Multicellular organisms that produce sexually and includes humans

Question 19

What is asexual reproduction?

Answer 19

Requires 1 parent to reproduce

Question 20

What is the scientific method?

Answer 20

A process to solve a problem

Question 21

Explain the steps of the scientific method.

Answer 21

Observe/research, ask a question, formulate hypothesis, make predictions, design an experiment, conduct experiment, analyze collected data and draw conclusions

Question 22

What is an inference?

Answer 22

A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence or reasoning

Question 23

What is an experimental group?

Answer 23

The group in an experiment that is exposed to the changing condition that is being tested

Question 24

What is the control group?

Answer 24

The group in an experiment that contains a controlled variable.

Question 25

What is a controlled variable?

Answer 25

A variable that does not change

Question 26

What is an independent variable?

Answer 26

A factor that is changed or manipulated and differs between the experimental and controlled groups

Question 27

What is an independent variable?

Answer 27

The response or result to the change in the experimental group due to the independent variable

Question 28

What is a variable?

Answer 28

A factor that is subject to change

Question 29

A null hypothesis is the first to be test. True or False?

Answer 29

TRUE.

Question 30

What is an alternative hypothesis?

Answer 30

Offers options if the null hypothesis is rejected

Question 31

What is deductive reasoning?

Answer 31

Includes very general/broad observations and predicts a very specific outcome

Question 32

What is inductive reasoning?

Answer 32

Takes a very specific observation rather than a broad one and draws broader conclusions rather than a specific one

Question 33

Qualitative data is measured using numbers. True or False?

Answer 33

FALSE. Qualitative data describes no numerical data while quantitative data measures numbers

Question 34

What does a scientist need to go through when publishing a piece of scientific literature?

Answer 34

Go through a peer review

Question 35

What is a peer review?

Answer 35

When a scientific piece of literature is subject to scrutiny from scientist in the same field of study

Question 36

Tertiary literature summarizes the results of another scientists original research. True or False?

Answer 36

FALSE. Tertiary literature condenses materials in reference to both primary and secondary literature. Secondary literature summarizes the results of original research.

Question 37

What is primary literature?

Answer 37

Includes any sort of original research

Question 38

What is a scientific theory?

Answer 38

Offers widely accepted explanations that have been tested thoroughly over many years

Question 39

Once a theory is disproved it is no longer a theory. True or False?

Answer 39

TRUE

Question 40

True theories become facts. True or False?

Answer 40

FALSE. Theories do not become facts and is a common misconception.

Question 41

What is a scientific law?

Answer 41

Mathematical formulas that offer observations without explanations and proven to always be true