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What is the largest animal living on Earth?
Blue Whale
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All living things and all the places that they are found makes up the ______.
biosphere
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Deserts, grassland, and different types of forests are included in which part of the biosphere?
Land enviroments
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Across the biosphere, the vsriety of life is called ___________.
Biodiversity
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Where is the most biodiversity found? Why?
near the equator; because more living things are able to survive in consistently warm temperatures than in areas that have large temperature changes during a year and more food supply is found
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What are particular types of living things that can reproduce by interbreading among themselves?
Species
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About how many known species are there?
two million
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Over half of the known species are _____.
insects
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What is the study of all forms of life, or all types of organisms?
Biology
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What is an organism?
Any individual living thing
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A _____ is the basic unit of life.
cell
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What is a single-celled organism called? One with many cells?
Unicellular; multicellular
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What is the ability to cause change or to do work?
Energy?
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What for of energy is used by all living things?
Chemical energy
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All the chemical processes that build up or breaks down materials is called _________.
metabolism
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When organisms pass their genetic material to their offspring they ______.
reproduce
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The genetic material is a module called deoxyribonucleic acid or ______.
DNA
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What is an organized group of related parts that interact to form a whole?
System
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What is a physical enviroment with different species that interact with one another and with nonliving things?
Ecosystem
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What is a protein molecule that extends through the membrane, or outer layer, of a cell?
channel
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What is the maintenance of constant internal conditions in an organism?
homeostasis
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What is the change in things over time?
evolution
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An inherited trait that gives an advantage to individual organisms and isn passed on to future generations is an ___________.
adaption
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What are the two types of data?
qualitative and quantitative data
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______ data are descriptions of an organism phenomenon such as sights, sounds, and smells.
qualitative
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______ data are characteristics that can be measured or counted such as mass, volume, and temperature.
quantitate
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What is a proposed answer to a scientific question?
hypothesis
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What are the two possible outcomes of statistical analysis?
Nonsignificant or Statistically significant
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The ______ variable is a condition that is manipulated or changed by a scientist.
independent
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The _______ variable is observed and measured during an experiment; it is the experimental data.
dependent
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The conditions that does not change in an experiment is called the ______.
constant
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What is a proposed explanation for a wide range of observation and experimental results that i supported by a wide range of evidence?
theory
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A _______ provides an enlarged image of an object.
microscope
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A ______ is a segment of DNA that stores genetic information.
gene
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What is the study and manipulation of DNA on a molecular level?
Molecular gene
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