STUDY GUIDE FOR FIRST NINE WEEKS TEST

1. A is a definition that changes to accommodate new information.

working definition

2. Examples of

are food gathering, digestion, reproduction, etc.

life processes

3. One way scientists classify organisms is by their

scientific

name.

4. An is a complete living thing.

organism

5. Anything living or once was part of something living is called organic.

6. The is where an organism lives.

habitat

7. An organism may be composed of one or more cells.

8. is an organization of organisms.

Classification

9. is nonliving.

Inorganic

10. is how things are different.

Diversity

11. An usually contains a 10x lens.

eyepiece

12. A usually holds the slide in place.

stage clip

13. The moves the body tube up and down.

coarse adjustment knob

14. The title of a drawing appears in

uppercase letters.

15. are printed neatly outside the field of view and parallel to the bottom of the page.

Labels

16. are printed within parenthesis to the right of the title.

Measurements

17. The scientific name of the WOWBug is Melittobia

digitata.

18. Center the specimen in the field

of view.

19. The is a tool that extends our sense of sight.

compound

lightmicroscop

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20. are the most common insect.

Beetles

21. An studies insects.

entomologist

22. Plants use from the sun.

energy

23. The seven layer system consists of the following:

kingdom

phylum

class

order

family

genus

species

24. is the science of classifying living things.

Taxonomy

25. An organism is named on the basis of its and genus

species.

26. The first letter of the genus name is always capitalized.

27. When a scientific name is hand written, it is underlined.

28. The scientific name of the California Blackworm is Lumbriculu

s

variegatus.

29. A has a segmented body that is similar to that of the earthworm.

blackworm

30. means separated or divided.

Segmented

31. means relating to or of the side.

Lateral

32. An is a small, winged arthropod with 3 pairs of legs, a segmented body, and 2 pairs of wings.

insect

33. is the act of cutting or dividing.

Fragmentation

34. The is the head of an organism.

anterior

35. is the type of reproduction that forms new organisms with a single parent.

Asexual

36. The is the third body segment of insects.

abdomen

37. A Lumbriculus fragment can a lost head, tail, or both.

regenerate

38. Blood pulsates through the dorsal blood vessel of the Lumbriculus from the

to the

posterior

anterior.

39. The title of a graph appears

above the graph.

40. A describes what information you are recording and is written along the

and axis.

variable

horizontal

vertical

41. tells how the variables are being measured.

Unit

42. is finding the data point for an ordered pair.

Plotting

43. A is information on the graph that remains the same, or shows no change.

constant

44. Numbers appear evenly spaced in

along the axis.

intervals

An experiment was performed to test the effects of different types of fertilizers on the number of tomatoes produced by one type of tomato plant. What is the experimental (independent) variable in this investigation?