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Name of the Nine Charateristics of organisms?
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1-organisms are made of one or more cells
2-Oragnisms move 3-Organisms respond to changes in thier environment 4-Organisms use energy 5-Organisms adjust to changes in thier environment 6-Organisms reproduce 7-Organisms grow and develop 8-Organisms adapt 9-Organisms have life spans |
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What is the main source of energy for all organisms?
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energy
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What are the raw materials that organisms use and how are they used?
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water,oxygen, and minerals; they are used and then returned to the environment to be used over and over again
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What is water important?
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living things are made up of 70% water they need to maintain this level to survive
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Francesco Redi
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Italian Doctorconducted one of the first controlled experimants is scined
he showed that maggots hatch from eggs |
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Lazzaro Spallanzani
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designed an experiment to show that tiny organisms came form other tiny orgainism
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Louis Pasteur?
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A french chemist; showed that living things do not come from nonliving materials
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Life Science is?
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The study of living things
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Basic Chemistry is?
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the study of matter of which things are made
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Earth Science?
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the study of planet earth
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What do botanists study?
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plants
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What do zoologists study?
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animals
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What do Ecologist study?
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who study how living things interact with each other and thier environment
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What is Genetics?
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explains how triats of organism are passed from generation to generation
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What is the Scientific Method?
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The form of a series of procedures
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Steps of the Scientific Method?
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1-Indentify the Problem
2-Collect Information 3-Suggest hypothesis 4-Design an experiement 5-Carry out the experiement 6-Analyze Data 7-Draw Conclusions 8-Hypothesis supported or not |
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What is a hypothesis?
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is a prediction that can be tested
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What is a variable?
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is the factor tested in an experiement
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What is the control?
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is the standard used to campare with the outcome of a test
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What is in a conclusion?
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is a logical answer to a question based on data and observations
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A theory
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is an explanation of things or events based on many ovservations
Theories can be changed as new data uncover new information |
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A Law
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is a reliable description of nature based on many observations
Law may change as more information becomes known |
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What is Critical Thinking?
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is a process that used certain skills to solve problems
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What does SI Stand for?
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international system of units; is based on certain units;using the same system gives scientists a common knowledge
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What is technology?
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is applied science or ths use of scientific knoweledge to solve everyday problems or improve the quality of life
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Ecology
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is the study of how organisms interct with each other and the environement
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Zacharia Janssen
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maker of reading glasses; put two magnifying glasses together in a tube the result was the first crude microscope
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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
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Dutch Scintist; made a simple microscope with tiny glass bead for lens
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What is a compound light microscope?
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lets light pass through an object and the through two or more lenses
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Transmission Electron Microscope TEM
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Which is used to study parts inside a cell
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What is a scanning electron Microscope SEM
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is used to the surface of whold objectts
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Who is Robert Hooke
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An English Scientist; An made a very thin slice of cork and looked at it under his microscope
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Who is Matthias Schleiden
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A German Scientist used a microscope to study plant parts; Cocnluded that plants were made of cells
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