Vocabulary

Characteristics of Living organisms Vocabulary

1. Cell

2. Homeostasis

3. DNA

4. Sexual reproduction

5. Asexual reproduction

6. Unicellular organism

7. Multicellular organism

8. Stimulus/stimuli

9. Heredity

10. Metabolism

11. Growth and Development

12. Evolve

13. Organism

Ecology Vocabulary

1. Ecology

2. Population

3. Organism

4. Community

5. Ecosystem

6. Biosphere

7. Abiotic Factors

8. Biotic Factors

9. Consumer

10. Herbivore

11. Carnivore

12. Omnivore

13. Scavenger

14. Decomposer

15. Producer

16. Habitat

17 Predator

18. Apex predator

19. Food chain

20. Food web

21. Habitat

Microscope vocabulary cards

1. Eyepiece (Ocular Lens)

2. Nosepiece

3. Objective lens - Scanning, Low,High Power

4. Arm

5. Coarse Adjustment Knob

6. Fine Adjustment Knob

7. Diaphragm

8. Stage

9. Stage clips

10. Base

11. Light Source

12. Compound Light Microscope

13. Field of View

Scientific Method Vocabulary

1. Hypothesis

2. Manipulated variable (independent variable)

3. Dependent variable

4. Control variable

5. Control group

6. Experimental group

7. Problem question

8. Observation

EVOLUTION VOCABULARY

1. Evolution

2. Adaptation

3. Natural Selection

4. Diversity

5. Variation

6. Extinction

7. Endangered

8. Homologous Structures

9. Fossil Record

10. Vestigial Structures

11. Embryonic Similarities

12. Mutation

13. Charles Darwin

14. Survival of the Fittest

15. Competition

16. Fitness

17. Speciation

18. Artificial Selection

Genetics Vocabulary

1. Inheritance

2. Genes

3. Chromosomes

4. Physical Traits (Characteristics)

5. Genetics

6. Dominant traits

7. Recessive traits

8. Alleles

9. Genotype

10. Phenotype

11. Homozygous

12. Heterozygous

13. Mutation - Deletion, Substitution, Insertion

14. Mutagen

15. Nucleotide

16. Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine, Thymine

17 Double helix

18. Probability

Cell Vocabulary

1. Cell membrane

2. Organelles

3. Cell wall

4. Nucleus

5. Cytoplasm

6. Golgi Apparatus, Body, or complex

7. Ribosomes

8. Smooth Endoplasmic reticulum

9. Rough ER

10. Mitochondria/Mitochondrion

11. Vacuoles

12. Lysosomes

13. Chloroplasts

14. Vesicles

15. Centrioles

16. Nucleolus

17. DNA/Chromosomes/chromatin

18. Nuclear Membrane

19. cell

20. organ

21. tissue

22. organ system

23. organism

24. community

25. population

26. Unicellular organism

27. Multicellular organism

28. Photosynthesis

29. Cellular Respiration