Question | Answer |
What is the smallest unit of a living thing that can perform all life processes? | A cell |
Scientist use microscopes to study the small what? | Details of a cell |
Plant and animal cells are similar because all cells have what? | a. Nucleus b. Cell membrane c. Cytoplasm |
What is the control center for the cell's activities? | Nucleus |
Cells that look similar can have what? | different jobs |
What is a cell membrane? | the cell's outer border, it separates the cell from its environment, and controls what substances move into or out of the cell |
What is a cytoplasm? | a cytoplasm contains the things that the cell needs to carry out its life processes |
What is a tissue? | a tissue are groupsof the same type of cell |
What is an organ? | an organ are groups of tissue that can work together |
What is an organism? | an organism is the highest level of a cell organization |
What is a complete living thing that is made from all of the systems working together? | an organism |
What is a chloroplast? | a chloroplast are special parts in plant cells that trap the sun's energy in order to make food |
What is a genus? | a 1st part of an organism's scientific name |
What are vascular plants? | vascular plants have a tube like structures that move water and nutrients to all the organs of the plant.(celery, grass, dandelions) |
What are nonvascular plants? | nonvascular plants do not have true roots, stems, or leaves, they pass water and nutrients from one cell to the cell next to it.(moss, hornworts) |
What are inverebrates? | invertebrates are animals that don't have a backbone |
What are arthropods? | arthropods are animals with jointed legs |
What kingdom lives on land and absorbs its food from other living or nonliving things? | fungi |
What 2nd part of an organism's scientific name? | species |
What is the animal kingdom? | 1.Kingdom 2.Phylam 3.Class 4.Order 5.Family 6.Genus 7.Species |
The liverwortsis a what? | nonvascular plant |
What reproduce by making seeds but do not have flowers? | pine trees |
Scientist classify an animal a verebrate because it what? | has a backbone |
An example of an arthropod is what | spiders |
Compare and contrast the life cycle of a Burmese python and a garden snail. | Snakes and Brown Garden Snails are alike because they both lay eggs. Snakes and Brown Garden Snails are different because the Brown Garden Snails leave after laying eggs and the Snakes wait until the eggs hatch. |
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