Chapter 1

Question 1

What are the characteristics of life ?

Answer 1

Organization
Require materials and energy 
Reproduce and develop 
Respond to stimulus 
Maintain homeostasis 
Adapt

Question 2

What are the levels of biological organizations?

Answer 2

Atoms
Molecules 
Cells
Tissue
Organs
Organ systems 
Organisms
Population 
Community 
Ecosystems 
Biosphere

Question 3

All members of one species in a given location is called what?

Answer 3

Population

Question 4

What does metabolism mean?

Answer 4

Chemical reaction in a cell

Question 5

What does photosynthesis mean?

Answer 5

Process by plants that make their own food

Question 6

Why do organisms reproduce?

Answer 6

To pass their genetic information included in genes

Question 7

What does Genes mean?

Answer 7

Unit of DNA

Question 8

What does mutations mean?

Answer 8

When DNA is changed

Question 9

What does Development mean?

Answer 9

A series of steps and organism goes through to become an adult.

Question 10

What does responding to stimulus mean?

Answer 10

Reaction to external and internal events

Question 11

What does Homeostasis mean?

Answer 11

To ability to maintain a stable internal environment

Question 12

What does adaptation mean?

Answer 12

Allowing an organism to exist in a particular environment

Question 13

What does evolution mean?

Answer 13

Is a accumulation of adaptions over a long period of time

Question 14

What does taxonomy mean?

Answer 14

Process of naming and classifying things such as animals and plants in a larger system,based on their similarly and differences

Question 15

What does species mean?

Answer 15

A group of closely related organisms that are similar to each other

Question 16

What are the classification of categories of organisms?

Answer 16

Domain
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species

Question 17

What are the three domains?

Answer 17

Archaea
Bacteria
Eukar

Question 18

What does domain arcgaea and domain bacteria have in common?

Answer 18

The both contain prokaryotic organisms
they both don’t have a nucleus
And they are both single cell organisms

Question 19

What makes Domain Eukar differ from Domain Archaea and Domain Bacteria?

Answer 19

Contains a nucleus

Question 20

What are plants well known as?

Answer 20

The mulitcellular photosynthesizers of the world.

Question 21

What organism are multicellular and ingest their food ?

Answer 21

Animals

Question 22

What are the steps of a scientific method?

Answer 22

Observation
Form a hypothesis 
Make a prediction 
Test the prediction
Use results to form new hypothesis

Question 23

What does Inductive reasoning mean?

Answer 23

Is a logical process in which multiple premises all believe true or found true most of the time.

Example
“ the coin in pulled out of the bag is a penny, therefore all the coins in the bag are pennies”

Question 24

What does deductive reasoning mean?

Answer 24

Allows for a development of a prediction, of what may occur as a result of the experiment.

Example
All apples are a fruit, a granny Smith is a type of apple, therefore the granny smith is a fruit.

Question 25

A good experimental design includes what?

Answer 25

Experimental variable and a control group

Question 26

What does data mean?

Answer 26

A collection of facts from your experiment

Question 27

How is data presented?

Answer 27

Either tables or graphs

Question 28

What does conclusion mean?

Answer 28

Is a statement as to whether your hypothesis was right or wrong.

Question 29

What does theory mean?

Answer 29

When multiple scientist arrive at the same conclusion over a period of time on the same subject.

Question 30

What are some challenges of technology in the world ?

Answer 30

The loss of biodiversity
Emerging diseases
Climate change

Question 31

What can happen when there is a loss of biodiversity and habitats?

Answer 31

Extinction