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Study Guide 1
Science
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| If the theory of spontaneous generation were true, it might be possible for | Life to spring from non-living matter |
| An organism that does not ingest food | is a producer |
| The process by which living thing takes in oxygen and uses it to help produce energy is called | respiration |
| An action of an organism due to the changes in its surroundings is called | response |
| A type of reproduction that requires two parents is called | sexual reproduction |
| All living things get energy either directly or indirectly from | the sun |
| A substance that makes up a large part of your body and helps transport materials within it is | blood |
| Animals whose body temperatures change with changes in the temperature of their environment are called | cold blooded |
| Which of the following is not a basic need of living things | process of elimination |
| All the chemical activities in an organism are called | metabolism |
| Organic compounds contain the element | carbon |
| The main source of energy for the human body is | carbohydrates |
| Which of the following are living things not able to do | process of elimination |
| In order to live all plants and animals need | energy |
| The process by which food is broken down into simpler substances is | digestion |
| A signal that causes an organism to react is known as | stimuli |
| A special type of protein that controls chemical activities in the body is an | enzyme |
| In organisms, oxygen combines with the products of digestion to produce | energy |
| A nucleic acid that "carries" instructions on how to build protein is | DNA |
| The idea that life could spring from nonliving matter is known as | spontaneous generation |
| Proteins are broken down inside the body into sugar called glucose | true |
| Characteristics of living things are movement, growth,reproduction, response, and metabolism | true |
| The building blocks of fats are amino acids | false |
| Secretion is the removal of waste products from an organism | false |
| The ringing of an alarm clock in the morning is an example of a stimulus | true |
| Unicellular organisms contain many cells | false |
| Francesco Redi proved that the theory spontaneous generation was true | false |
| nonliving things need energy to survive | false |
| only living things are made up of carbon | false |
| All animals need living space to survive | true |
| All the chemical activities within a living things are called its | metabolism |
| An organisms__ is the greatest length of time that it can be expected to live | life span |
| compounds that always contain the element carbon are called | organic compounds |
| A(an)_ is a substance that cannot be broken down into other kinds of substances | element |
| The theory that states that life can spring from non-living matter is called | spontaneous generation |
| Green plants produce food in a process called | photosynthesis |
| Two or more elements combined chemically form a compound | compound |
| Plant obtain their energy from the | sun |
| Animals that maintain a constant body temperature are called | warm blooded |
| The nucleic acid that stores the info needed to build plants. | DNA |