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Chap.1 life sci
Study Guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What do you call explaining or interpreting the things you observe base on reasoning from what you already know? | inferring |
| Observations that deal with descriptions that cannot be expressed using numbers are called? | Qualitative observations |
| observations that deal with a number or amount are called what? | Quantitative observations |
| What do you call it when you use one or more of you senses to gather information? | observation |
| What would you call trying to explain why a cactus needs little water to survive? | scientific inquiry |
| Making forecast of what will happen in the future based on past experience or evidence is called what? | predicting |
| When scientists put things into categories or group together items that are alike in some way, what are they doing? | classifying |
| When scientists create a representation of a complex process, what are they doing? | making models |
| What do all living things need to survive? | water |
| A change in an organism's surroundings that causes it to react is called what? | stimulus |
| What characteristic is NOT shared by all living things? | using oxygen |
| What did the invention of the microscope make possible for people to first discover? | cells |
| What does the term resolution refer to? | how sharp an image is |
| How does magnification occur in an electron microscope? | an electron beam creates an image |
| What is homeostasis? | an organism's ability to maintain stable internal conditions |
| Why do scientists organize living things into groups? | so that they are easier to study |
| One characteristic used to place organism into kingdoms is what? | the ability to make food |
| A plant grows toward the light. The plant's action is an example of what? | a response |
| What is taxonomy? | the scientific study of how living things are classified |
| What does an organism's scientific name consist of? | its genus name and its species name |
| Which group of organisms includes only multicellular heterotrophs? | animals |
| Why is spontaneous generation a mistaken idea? | Because living things are produced only by living things |
| What does a microscope do? | Makes small objects look bigger. |
| Count something is an example of what type of observation? | Quantitative |
| Archaea and Bacteria are two domains of what? | Prokaryotes |
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