Biology Basics Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Biology | The study of life and living systems |
Geology | The study of earth, particularly the solid earth and the rocks that compose it |
Entomology | Branch of zoology that deals with the study of insects |
Botany | The scientific study and categorization of plants |
Ecology | The study of the relationship between living things and their environment |
Genetics | The study of heredity, or how the characteristics of living things are passed from one generation to the next |
Pathology | The study of the nature and cause of diseases |
Taxonomy | The classification of living things |
meteorology | The study of weather and climate |
science | organized way of using evidence to learn about the natural world |
observation | use of one or more of the senses to gather information |
data | evidence or information gathered from observation |
inference | logical interpretation bases on prior knowledge and experiences |
hypothesis | possible explanation for a set of observations or possible answer to a scientific question |
controlled experiment | a test of the effect of ONE variable by changing it while keeping all other variables the same |
metric system | universal decimal system of measurement based on certain physical standards and scaled on multiples of 10 |
microscope | device that produces magnified images of structures that are too small to see with the unaided eye |
compound light microscope | microscope that allows light to pass through a specimen and uses two lenses to form an image |
zoology | the scientific study and characterization of animals |
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