Section 1 Flashcards
Productivity
the amount of food produced by marine organisms and the number of organisms the ocean can support
Oceanography
the study of the ocean and their phenomena
Marine Biology
the study of organisms and their reactions with each other and their environments
Inductive Reasoning
involves looking at individual observations and proposing a general explanation for them
Deductive Reasoning
the process of reasoning whereby observations suggest a general principle from which a specific statement can be derived
Theory
a body of observations that have stood the test of time
Experimental Variable
factor that is altered in an experiment
Experiment Set
has experimental variable
Control Set
without experimental variable
Observational Science
observing and describing and possibly theorizing; but not testing
Aristotle
the first to develop scheme of classification “ladder of life”
Pliny the Elder
roman naturalist; works in natural history
Kumulipo
hawaiian creation chant
Jean-Baptiste Lemark
environment shapes animals, forms vs function
George’s Cuvier
“father” of vertebrate paleontology
Charles Darwin
HMS beagle 1831 observations of atolls, 1859 origin of the species by natural selection
Modern Science Originated…
in the challenger expedition, 19th century