Name: __________________________Period:___________
Section 1: What interests do I have?
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If you had 1 million dollars? What would I do with it?
If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be and why?
What are your current goals for this school year?
What are you currently spending most of your quarantine time doing?
What do you like about your school? Is there anything you would change?
What is your favorite type of music or song?
What is your favorite type of food?
What is a talent that you wish you had?
What languages do you know? What languages do you wish you knew how to speak?
If you could time travel, would you go back in time or forward? Why?
If you could be in any cartoon, what cartoon would it be?
If you could travel to a national or state park, where would it be?
Section 2: About you
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Do you have any brothers or sisters?
Do you have any pets? Tell me a bit about them?
What is the clumsiest thing you’ve ever done?
What is one thing you will never do again?
What or who makes you really angry or frustrated?
What or who makes you really happy and excited?
Do you consider yourself an extrovert or an introvert?
What is a talent that you wish you had?
When is the last time you facepalmed and why?
What is your proudest accomplishment?
What is your favorite time of day or night and why?
How are you different from your friends or family?
Section 3: What makes you unique?
1. Who are you? If you could describe yourself in 1 sentence, what would it be? How would you
describe yourself?
2. Who do you talk to when you have a problem? How do they help?
3. What are you most grateful for in life?
4. What is the most important piece of advice you have been given?
5. If you had one year left to live, what would you do?
6. If you had one month left to live, what would you do?
7. What is your happiest memory?
8. What is your ultimate career-oriented goal? What steps will you take to achieve it?
9. What advice would you give yourself 5 years ago?
10. What opportunities are you looking for? How can you work towards creating these
opportunities for yourself?
11. What are your biggest goals and dreams?
12. How can you overcome your obstacles?
Name: __________________________Period:___________
If I were a scientist, what type of scientist would I be?
Directions: Below is a list of different types of professional scientific careers. Choose one from
this list and tell me why you would be interested in becoming that type of scientist. Try to
elaborate on why you think you would be interested in that profession. Please at least provide
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Anthropologist: A scientist who studies societies and cultures.
Aquatic Biogeochemist: A scientist who studies the movement of chemical elements,
such as carbon and nitrogen, through marine and freshwater aquatic ecosystems. These
scientists also study how chemical elements relate to and become a part of living things
over time.
Aquatic Ecologist: A scientist who the relationship of species living in marine, stream, or
lake environments with their living and nonliving environments.
Archaeologist: A scientist who studies human history, particularly the culture of historic
and prehistoric people, through discovery and exploration of remains, structures and
writings.
An astronomer studies stars, planets and galaxies.
An astrophysicist is a scientist that studies the branch of space science that applies the
laws of physics and chemistry to explain the birth, life and death of stars, planets,
galaxies, nebulae and other objects in the universe
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An agronomist specializes in soil and crops.
Biologist/Biological Scientist: A scientist who studies living organisms and living systems.
Botanist: A scientist who studies plants.
A botanist specializes in plants.
Chief Scientist: A scientist who leads other scientists in a particular research area.
Climate Ecologist: A scientist who studies climates, the causes and long-term effects of
variation in regional and global climates, as well as how climate affects the living and
nonliving environment.
Climatologist: A scientist who studies climate change, climate variation, and the effects
of climate on Earth.
Coastal Ecologist: A scientist who studies coastal processes, plant, and animals, and
their interactions with the living and nonliving environment.
A cytologist specializes in the study of cells.
A chemist is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the
composition of matter and its properties. Chemists carefully describe the properties
they study in terms of quantities, with detail on the level of molecules and their
component atoms.
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Dendrochronologist (den drō krə nä lə jist): A scientist who studies tree rings.
Dendrologist: A scientist who studies trees.
Ecologist (e kä lə jist): A person who studies the relationship between living things and
their environment.
Economist/Resource Economist (i kä nə mist): A scientist who studies economics.
Economics is the study of the way goods, services, and wealth are measured, produced,
distributed, and used.
Ecophysiologist: A scientist who studies the functioning of an organism and its
relationship with the living and nonliving environment.
Engineer: A person who studies, designs, and/or builds complicated products, machines,
systems, or structures.
Entomologist (en tə mä lə jist): A scientist who studies insects.
An epidemiologist - studies the spread of diseases.
An ethologist studies animal behavior.
Fire Ecologist: A scientist who studies the origins of wildland fire and it's relationship to
the living and nonliving environment.
Fish Biologist (fish bī ä lə jist): A scientist who studies fish and the processes that support
fish.
Forester: A scientist who studies forests, or is skilled in planting, managing, or caring for
trees.
Forest Pathologist: A scientist who studies the living and nonliving diseases affecting
forest ecosystems.
Geneticist: A scientist who studies genetics, which is the science of genes, heredity, and
variation of organisms.
Geographer: A scientist who studies Earth’s natural environment and how human
society uses the natural environment.
A geologist specializes in the history of Earth.
Herpetologist (hər pə tä lə jist): A person who studies reptiles and amphibians.
Hydrologist: A scientist who studies water and the water cycle.
Ichthyologist: A scientist who studies fish.
Invasion Ecologist: A scientist who studies the establishment, spread, and impact of
invasive and nonnative species.
Landscape Ecologist: A scientist who studies the relationships between ecological
processes in the environment and particular ecosystems.
Landscape Planner: A person who studies the competing land uses while protecting
natural process and resources, and cultural resources.
Marine Ecologist: A scientist who studies the relationship of species living in marine
environments with their living and nonliving environments.
A marine biologist studies ocean plants and animals.
A microbiologist studies microscopic plants and animals
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Medical Entomologist: A scientist who studies medically important arthropods, including
ticks, fleas, and mosquitos.
Meteorologist: A scientist who studies the atmosphere.
Ornithologist (ȯr nə thä lə jist): A person who studies birds.
A paleontologist specializes in fossils.
Plant Ecologist: A scientist who studies the relationship of plants with one another and with
their living and nonliving environment.
Plant Pathologist: A scientist who studies plant diseases.
Policy Analyst: A scientist who studies different policies to determine which policy will best help
achieve an identified set of goals.
A physicist studies matter, energy, and how they are related.
Quantitative Ecologist: A scientist who applies statistical tools and mathematics to problems in
ecology.
Ecology is the study of the interactions of living things with each other and with the nonliving
environment.
A seismologist studies earthquakes.
Silviculturist: A scientist studies the care and growth of forest and trees.
Social Scientist: A scientist who studies the values, opinions, beliefs, attitudes, and actions of
individuals and groups of people.
Soil Scientist: A scientist who studies soils.
Statistician: A scientist who uses statistical tools to design data collection plans, analyze data,
graph data, and help solve real-world problems in business, engineering, the sciences, or other
fields.
Systems Ecologist: A scientist who studies ecological systems, especially ecosystems.
Terrestrial Ecologist: A scientist who studies structure and function of global terrestrial
ecosystems, their interactions with the atmosphere, and their role in major processes, such as
the water cycle.
Tropical Ecologist: A scientist who studies the relationships between the living and nonliving
parts of the tropical environment.
A virologist – The study of viruses and how they affect living organisms.
Wetland Ecologist: A scientist who studies wetlands, including plants and animals, and how they
interact with their living and nonliving environment.
Wildlife Biologist: A scientist who studies wildlife, including what they eat, how they reproduce,
and how they use their habitat.
Wildlife Ecologist: A scientist who studies the relationship of different kinds of wildlife with each
other and with their living and nonliving environment. Zoologist: A scientist who studies animal
and animal life
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