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cells and cycles - R
vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the part of the plant cell that helps the plant make food and contains chlorophyll | cholorplasts |
| animals without a backbone | invertebrate |
| material around the nucleus, surrounded by the cell membrane | cytoplasm |
| the highest and most general group of organisms | kingdom |
| a tool to help classify organisms and to identiy an unknown organism | dichotomous key |
| green part of the plant cell that uses the energy in sunlight to turn to water & carbon dioxide into oxygen & suger (photosynthesis) | chlorophyll |
| the next level of classification below the level of kingdom | phylum |
| the level of classification with the least variety of organisms | species |
| plants which uses tubes to pass nutrients | vascular |
| the part of the cell that contains the chromosomes and controls the cell | nucleus |
| the level of classification below phylum | class |
| to put things in groups | classify |
| all living and nonliving things in an area | ecosystem |
| structure in the cell that stores water and breaks down waste | vacuole |
| the part of the plant cell that gives the plant support and protection | cell wall |
| plants that do not have tubes to pass nutrients like mosses | nonvascular |
| animals with a back bone | vertebrates |
| the ability to to adapt and change to better survive in the environment | adaptation |
| an organism that gets nutrients by breaking down dead organisms | decomposer |
| an organism that eats other organisms to get food, and cannot make its own food | consumer |
| the series of stages that a living thing passes through during its growth and development | life cycle |
| the cell's power producer | mitochondria |
| an organism that makes its own food | producer |
| an organism that is eaten by another organism | prey |
| an organism that hunts and eats another organism | predator |
| an organism made up of many cells | multicellular |