| Question |
Answer |
| stages: egg - larva - pupa - adult |
metamorphosis |
| What part of a seedling provides food for the seeding? |
endosperm |
| What are the 4 parts of a seedling? |
seed coat, endosperm, cotyledon, embryo |
| A population of moths has dark and light colored moths. If all the trunks of forest trees are blackened during a fire, which color moth will survive in great numbers? |
dark-colored |
| Any carnivorous dinosaurs that walked on 2 legs with small forelimbs and a large skull, long jaw and sharp teeth. |
theropod |
| What creatures live at the expense of other organisms? |
parasites |
| What type of relationship do two organism have when both live together and benefit each other? |
symbiotic |
| What symbiotic relationship is characterized by one organism benefits from the relationship while the other is unaffected? |
commensal |
| What kingdom has no chlorophyll, reproduces with spores, and consists mostly of decomposers? |
fungi |
| What phylum has jointed legs, segmented bodies, and external skeletons? |
anthropoda |
| What are environments with like climates and ecological communities called? |
biomes |
| _______ are where fresh water and salt water mix. |
estuaries |
| What type of forest is made up primarily of trees that annually shed their leaves? |
decidious |
| What are the dominant plants in grasslands? |
grass |
| What is annual rainfall in grasslands? |
between 25 cm and 75 cm |
| What takes any shape it wants, is only one cell big and likes to ooze? |
amoeba |
| What prefers to live on rocks and belongs to 2 kingdoms? |
lichen |
| Clues: larger than a virus, smaller than a blood cell, tail called a flagellum |
bacterium |
| water loss through leaves |
transpiration |
| liquid or frozen water falls from sky |
precipitation |
| oil and gas |
fossil fuels |
| breakdown carbon compounds like CO2 and water |
respiration |
| energy producing organelle in a cell |
mitochrondrion |
| organelle that helps break down a dead cell |
lysosome |
| organelle that helps assemble proteins |
ribosome |
| What is this process: 6CO2 + 6H2O becomes C6H12O6 + 6O2 |
chemical formula for green plant photosynthesis |
| What is this process: C6H12O6 + 6O2 becomes 6CO2 + 6H2O + energy |
chemical formula for respiration in plants and animals |
| cell division phase has all chromosomes lined up in the middle of the cell |
metaphase |
| cell devision phase when chromosomes pull apart |
anaphase |
| cell division phase when nuclear membrane disappears |
prophase |
| cell production of 2 cells with the same number of chromosomes |
mitosis |
| cell production yields 4 cells with half the chromosomes of the parent cell |
meiosis |
| wavelike muscular contraction by which digestive contents are forced toward the opening |
peristalsis |
| part of digestive system that is home to microbes and soaks up water |
large intestines |
| controls response to invading microorganisms |
immune system |
| system that exchanges gas between air and body |
respiratory system |
| breaks down food and absorbs nutrients |
digestive system |
| system provides support and stores minerals |
skeletal system |
| 4 major human blood groups |
A, B, AB, O |
| blood cells that play role in defense of the body |
white blood cells |
| gland that increases metabolic rate and maintains calcium and potassium levels in blood |
thyroid gland |
| master gland regulating all other glands |
hypothalamus |
| gland elevates heart rate, blood pressure, blood sugar, and breathing, but suppresses digestion |
adrenal gland |
| gland regulating immune system |
thymus gland |
| hollow ball of cells in early animal development |
blastula |
| tissue eventually forms muscles |
mesoderm |
| tissue forms nerve cells |
ectoderm |
| tissue forms digestive system |
endoderm |
| stage of a fern producing gametes |
gametophyte |
| adult, spore producing fern |
sporophyte |
| structure holding spores |
annulus |
| What has 4 legs in the morning, 2 legs at noon, and 3 legs at sunset? (metaphor about human development) |
baby crawls on 4 legs, adult stands on 2 legs, elder stands with aid of a cane |
Poultry
