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WorksheetsEDUC 305 Vocab Flashcards | Quizlet
Total questions: 100
Worksheet time: 50mins
The natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism is called _________.
Habitat
Climate
Niche
Territory
The list of tools and substances needed to replicated or produce an occurrence is called _________.
Materials
Methods
Results
Procedure
The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates are called _________.
Environment
Habitat
Climate
Territory
A phase change from a solid to a liquid is called _________.
Melting
Freezing
Condensation
Sublimation
The sciences concerned with the study of living organisms, including biology, botany, zoology, microbiology, physiology, biochemistry, and related subjects are called _________.
Life Science
Physical Science
Earth Science
Social Science
Data expressing a certain quantity, amount or range is called _________.
Quantitative Data
Qualitative Data
Categorical Data
Nominal Data
The internal energy of an object due to the kinetic energy of its atoms and/or molecules is called _________.
Thermal Energy
Potential Energy
Chemical Energy
Electrical Energy
The adaptation of an organism or organ to a special function or environment is called _________.
Specialization
Mutation
Migration
Osmosis
To make an exact copy of or reproduce is to _________.
Replicate
Complicate
Negotiate
Fabricate
The resistance that one surface or object encounters when moving over another is called _________.
Friction
Gravity
Magnetism
Pressure
The group in an experiment that receives the variable being tested is called the _________.
Experimental Group
Control Group
Placebo Group
Sample Group
A system of interlocking and interdependent food chains is called a _________.
Food Web
Food Chain
Ecosystem
Trophic Level
The elements required for survival and normal mental and physical health, such as food, water, shelter, protection from environmental threats, and love are called _________.
Basic Needs
Luxury Items
Social Status
Personal Interests
The meter prefix meaning 1 is _________
Unit
Milli
Centi
Kilo
A sudden movement of the Earth's lithosphere (its crust and upper mantle) is called an _________.
Earthquake
Volcano
Tsunami
Hurricane
A phase change from a gas to a solid is called _________.
Deposition
Sublimation
Condensation
Evaporation
Hot fluid or semifluid material below or within the earth's crust from which lava and other igneous rock is formed by cooling is called _________.
Magma
Sediment
Granite
Basalt
A phase change from a solid to a gas is called _________.
Sublimation
Condensation
Melting
Freezing
Strength or energy as an attribute of physical action or movement is called _________.
Force
Mass
Speed
Volume
Of compression and rarefaction, by which sound is propagated in an elastic medium such as air, is called a _________.
Sound Wave
Light Wave
Electric Current
Magnetic Field
The sciences concerned with the study of inanimate natural objects, including physics, chemistry, astronomy, and related subjects are called _________.
Physical Science
Life Science
Social Science
Earth Science
Energy from a source that is not depleted when used, such as wind or solar power, is called _________?
Renewable Energy
Fossil Fuel
Non-renewable Energy
Nuclear Energy
A formal or systematic examination or research of a topic is called an _________.
Investigation
Celebration
Decoration
Imagination
The adjustment or changes in behavior, physiology, and structure of an organism to become more suited to an environment is called _________.
Adaptation
Migration
Mutation
Extinction
The meter prefix meaning 1/10 is _________
Deci
Centi
Milli
Kilo
The central or innermost portion of the Earth, lying below the mantle, is called the _________.
Core
Crust
Lithosphere
Asthenosphere
A thin layer of rock separates the Earth's oceans from the hot mantle beneath them is called the _________.
Oceanic Crust
Continental Shelf
Lithosphere
Asthenosphere
The meter prefix meaning 1/100 is _________
Centi
Milli
Deci
Kilo
Information collected using specific methods for a specific purpose of studying or analyzing is called _________.
Data
Noise
Guess
Opinion
A measure of the number of atoms in it is called _________.
Mass
Volume
Density
Mole
The meter prefix meaning 100 is _________.
Hecto
Deca
Centi
Milli
Fill in the blank: The metric unit for volume is _______.
Liter
Meter
Gram
Second
Fill in the blank: In an insect or amphibian, the process of transformation from an immature form to an adult form in two or more distinct stages is called _______.
Metamorphosis
Photosynthesis
Respiration
Pollination
Fill in the blank: The meter prefix meaning 10 is _______.
Deka
Deci
Centi
Milli
Fill in the blank: An individual living thing, such as a plant, animal, bacterium, protest, or fungus is called an _______.
Organism
Cell
Molecule
Tissue
Fill in the blank: Any of several sciences, such as geology, oceanography, and meteorology, that study the origin, composition, and physical features of the Earth, and also including study phenomena occurring in the upper atmosphere, in space, or on celestial bodies other than Earth is called _______.
Earth and Space Science
Biology
Chemistry
Environmental Engineering
A phase change from a liquid to a gas is called _______.
Vaporization
Condensation
Sublimation
Freezing
Fill in the blank: An animal that feeds on carrion, dead plant material, or refuse is called a _______.
Scavenger
Herbivore
Carnivore
Producer
Fill in the blank: The basic unit of a chemical element is called an _______.
Atom
Molecule
Cell
Ion
Fill in the blank: A rapid learning process that takes place early in the life of a social animal is called _______.
Imprinting
Conditioning
Habituation
Trial and Error
Fill in the blank: A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment is called an _______.
Ecosystem
Organism
Habitat
Population
Fill in the blank: The variable that the scientist deliberately changes is called the _______.
Independent Variable
Dependent Variable
Controlled Variable
Experimental Variable
Fill in the blank: The seasonal movement of a complete population of animals from one area to another is called _______.
Migration
Hibernation
Estivation
Territoriality
Fill in the blank: A crack in the Earth's crust is called a _______.
Fault
Fold
Ridge
Trench
Fill in the blank: The metric unit for length is _______.
Meter
Liter
Gram
Second
Fill in the blank: Organisms that break down dead or decaying organisms are called _______.
Decomposer
Producer
Consumer
Scavenger
Fill in the blank: A summary of how your results support or contradict your original hypothesis is called a _______.
Conclusion
Variable
Prediction
Procedure
Fill in the blank: Energy that a body possesses by virtue of being in motion is called _______.
Kinetic Energy
Potential Energy
Thermal Energy
Chemical Energy
Fill in the blank: A usually irreversible chemical reaction involving the rearrangement of the atoms of one or more substances and a change in their chemical properties or composition, resulting in the formation of at least one new substance is called a _______.
Chemical Change
Physical Change
Mixture
Solution
Fill in the blank: Data that approximates or characterizes but does not measure the attributes is called _______.
Qualitative Data
Quantitative Data
Discrete Data
Continuous Data
Fill in the blank: An act or a manner of proceeding in any action or process is called _______.
Procedures
Evidence
Judgment
Jurisdiction
Fill in the blank: The branch of science and technology concerned with the design, building, and use of engines, machines, and structures is called _______.
Engineering
Biology
Chemistry
Astronomy
Fill in the blank: The variable that is observed or measured by the scientist because of the independent variable is called the _______.
Dependent Variable
Control Variable
Constant Variable
Manipulated Variable
A phase change from a liquid to a solid is called _______.
Freezing
Melting
Evaporation
Condensation
Fill in the blank: An animal or person that eats food of both plant and animal origin is called an _______.
Omnivore
Herbivore
Carnivore
Insectivore
Fill in the blank: An act or instance of viewing or noting a fact or occurrence for some scientific or other special purpose is called an _______.
Observation
Experiment
Hypothesis
Inference
Fill in the blank: The meter prefix meaning 1000 is _______.
Kilo
Milli
Centi
Deci
Fill in the blank: The meter prefix meaning 1/1000 is _______.
Milli
Centi
Deci
Kilo
A supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation also known as an educated guess. Fill in the blank: __________
Hypothesis
Theory
Law
Observation
An animal that feeds on plants. Fill in the blank: __________
Herbivore
Carnivore
Omnivore
Insectivore
Is the blending in with surroundings. Fill in the blank: __________
Camouflage
Migration
Photosynthesis
Evaporation
An animal that feeds on flesh. Fill in the blank: __________
Carnivore
Herbivore
Omnivore
Insectivore
Is a state of inactivity and metabolic depression. Fill in the blank: __________
Hibernation
Migration
Photosynthesis
Estivation
The action of imitating someone or something, typically to increase chances of survival. Fill in the blank: __________
Mimicry
Migration
Photosynthesis
Predation
The outer layer of the Earth, between the surface and the mantle, which is up to 40 miles deep. Fill in the blank: __________
Crust
Core
Mantle
Lithosphere
An innate, typically fixed pattern of behavior in animals in response to certain stimuli. Fill in the blank: __________
Instinct
Reflex
Learning
Adaptation
A cold-blooded vertebrate animal of a class that comprises the frogs, toads, newts, and salamanders. They are distinguished by having an aquatic gill-breathing larval stage followed (typically) by a terrestrial lung-breathing adult stage. What is the correct answer?
Amphibian
Reptile
Mammal
Bird
The process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water. Fill in the blank: __________
Photosynthesis
Respiration
Transpiration
Fermentation
The metric unit for mass. Fill in the blank: __________
Gram
Meter
Liter
Second
A type of vaporization and is the process of turning from liquid into vapor. Fill in the blank: __________
Evaporation
Condensation
Sublimation
Freezing
Any animal of the class Insecta, comprising small, air-breathing arthropods having the body divided into three parts (head, thorax, and abdomen), and having three pairs of legs and usually two pairs of wings. What is the correct term?
Insect
Mammal
Reptile
Amphibian
Is an organism that feeds on plants or other animals for energy. Fill in the blank: __________
Consumer
Producer
Decomposer
Autotroph
A hierarchical series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food. Fill in the blank: __________
Food Chain
Habitat
Ecosystem
Producer
Is in green plant cells and is a plastid that contains chlorophyll and in which photosynthesis takes place. Fill in the blank: __________
Chloroplast
Mitochondria
Nucleus
Vacuole
Is defined as the group in an experiment or study that does not receive treatment. Fill in the blank: __________
Control Group
Experimental Group
Variable Group
Treatment Group
An element, feature, or factor that is liable to vary or change. Fill in the blank: __________
Variables
Constants
Units
Controls
A warm-blooded vertebrate animal of a class that is distinguished by the possession of hair or fur, the secretion of milk by females for the nourishment of the young, and (typically) the birth of live young. What is it called?
Mammal
Reptile
Bird
Amphibian
The cycle of processes by which water circulates between the earth's oceans, atmosphere, and land, involving precipitation as rain and snow, drainage in streams and rivers, and return to the atmosphere by evaporation and transpiration. What is this cycle called?
Water Cycle
Carbon Cycle
Nitrogen Cycle
Rock Cycle
Is formed through the cooling and solidification of magma or lava. Fill in the blank: __________
Igneous Rock
Sedimentary Rock
Metamorphic Rock
Sandstone
Is the part of the earth between the core and the crust. Fill in the blank: __________
Mantle
Crust
Core
Atmosphere
Is the measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in a sample of matter. Fill in the blank: __________
Temperature
Pressure
Density
Volume
Are changes affecting the form of a chemical substance, but not its chemical composition. Fill in the blank: __________
Physical Change
Chemical Change
Nuclear Change
Biological Change
A theory in geology: the lithosphere of the earth is divided into a small number of plates which float on and travel independently over the mantle and much of the earth's seismic activity occurs at the boundaries of these plates. Fill in the blank: __________
Tectonic Plate
Continental Drift
Seafloor Spreading
Rock Cycle
A phase change from a gas to a liquid. Fill in the blank: __________
Condensation
Evaporation
Sublimation
Freezing
Is the maximum height of the wave crest. Fill in the blank: __________
Amplitude
Frequency
Wavelength
Velocity
The force that attracts a body toward the center of the earth, or toward any other physical body having mass. Fill in the blank: __________
Gravity
Friction
Magnetism
Buoyancy
Is the layer of granitic, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks which form the continents and the areas of shallow seabed close to their shores, known as continental shelves. Fill in the blank: __________
Continental Crust
Oceanic Crust
Mantle
Core
Is an organism, either a green plant or bacterium, which is part of the first level of a food chain that can take energy from the sun and make its own food. Fill in the blank: __________
Producer
Consumer
Decomposer
Scavenger
Occurs when the moon passes between the sun and the earth. Fill in the blank: __________
Solar Eclipse
Lunar Eclipse
New Moon
Full Moon
Occurs when the Moon passes directly behind Earth and into its shadow. Fill in the blank: __________
Lunar Eclipse
Solar Eclipse
New Moon
Full Moon
An optical instrument designed to make distant objects appear nearer, containing an arrangement of lenses, or of curved mirrors and lenses, by which rays of light are collected and focused and the resulting image magnified. What is this instrument called?
Telescope
Microscope
Periscope
Binoculars
The curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star, planet, or moon, especially a periodic elliptical revolution. Fill in the blank: __________
Orbit
Axis
Gravity
Eclipse
The collection of planets and their moons in orbit around the sun, together with smaller bodies in the form of asteroids, meteoroids, and comets. Fill in the blank: __________
Solar System
Galaxy
Universe
Constellation
An artificial body placed in orbit around the earth or moon or another planet in order to collect information or for communication. Fill in the blank: __________
Satellite
Asteroid
Comet
Meteor
Is a body that orbits the Sun, is massive enough for its own gravity to make it round, and has "cleared its neighborhood" of smaller objects around its orbit. Fill in the blank: __________
Planet
Asteroid
Comet
Dwarf planet
Either of the two times in the year, the summer solstice and the winter solstice, when the sun reaches its highest or lowest point in the sky at noon, marked by the longest and shortest days. Fill in the blank: __________
Solstice
Equinox
Eclipse
Zenith
A time when the Moon presents a particular recurring appearance. Fill in the blank: __________
moon phases
solar eclipse
lunar eclipse
new moon
A huge ball of gas held together by gravity. Fill in the blank: __________
Star
Planet
Comet
Asteroid
A tapering structure hanging like an icicle from the roof of a cave, formed of calcium salts deposited by dripping water. Fill in the blank: __________
Stalactite
Stalagmite
Column
Flowstone
A mound or tapering column rising from the floor of a cave, formed of calcium salts deposited by dripping water. Fill in the blank: __________
Stalagmite
Stalactite
Column
Pillar
