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Science #2
Grades 5 to 6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Biology | Science of living things |
| Biologists | Scientists who studies living things |
| Botanists | Scientists who studies plants |
| Botany | Science of plants |
| Zoologists | Scientists who studies animals |
| Zoology | Science of animals |
| Microbiology | Study of microscopic plants and animals |
| Microbiologists | Scientists who study microscopic plants and animals |
| Cytology | Study of cells |
| Cytologists | Scientists who study cells |
| Entomology | Study of insects |
| Entomologist | Scientists who study insects |
| Herpetology | Study of reptiles and amphibians |
| Herpetologists | Scientists who study reptiles and amphibians |
| Ichthyology | Study of fish |
| Ichthyologists | Scientists who study fish |
| Mammology | Study of mammals |
| Mammologists | Scientists who study mammals |
| Marine Biology | Study of plants and animals in seas and oceans |
| Marine Biologyists | Scientists who study plants and animals in seas and oceans |
| Ornithology | Study of birds |
| Ornithologists | Scientists who study birds |
| Paleontology | Study of fossil plants and animals from past ages |
| Paleontologists | Scientists who study fossil plants and animals from past ages |
| George Washington Carver | Agriculturalist known for crop rotation and developed over 325 uses for the peanut, a staple crop of the South in the USA |
| Rachel Carson | Biologist who investigated and stopped the use of pesticides like DDT |
| Maria Mitchell | Librarian and astronomer who identified Miss Mitchell's comet in 1847 |
| Jonas Salk | Microbiologist who developed a vaccine for polio |
| One of the Five Kingdoms: Animals | Animalia Kingdom |
| One of the Five Kingdoms: Plants | Plantae Kingdom |
| One of the Five Kingdoms: Fungus Organisms | Fungi Kingdom (mushrooms, molds, yeast, etc.) |
| One of the Five Kingdoms: Protists | Protista Kingdom (amoebas, paramecia, diatoms, euglenas, etc.) |
| One of the Five Kingdoms: Monerans | Monera Kingdom (bacteria, blue-green algae, etc.) |
| Acronym for Classification of Living Things | Keep Pond Clean Or Froggy Gets Sick (Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species) |
| Vertebrate | Animals with a backbone |
| Invertebrate | Animals without a backbone |
| Exoskeleton | Hard outer skin that works like a skeleton, but isn't really a "skeleton" |
| Number of vertebrates in the world | 45,000 species |
| Number of invertebrates in the world | Millions of species |
| Sponges | Porifera (Invertebrate) |
| Stinging-Cell Animals | Cnidaria (Invertebrate -10,000 species of jellyfish, corals, sea anemones) |
| Flatworms | Platyehlminthes (Invertebrate - 13,000 species of tapeworms, flukes, planaria) |
| Roundworms | Nematoda (Invertebrate - 12,000 species of parasites, some of which cause diseases) |
| Segmented Worms | Annelida (Invertebrate - segmented and earthworms) |
| Mollusks | Mollusca (Invertebrate - 50,000 species of snails, slugs, octopuses, squids, scallops, mussels, oysters) |
| Sea Stars and their Relatives | Echinodermata (Invertebrate - 5,500 species of sea stars [aka starfish], brittle stars, sand dollars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers) |
| Arthropods | Artthropoda (Invertebrate - 800,000 species of spiders, crustaceans, lobsters, crabs, millipedes, centipedes) |
| Chitlin | Makes up the exoskeleton of arthropods |
| Cold-Blooded Animals | Fish, Reptiles, and Amphibians |
| Warm-Blooded Animals | Animals with an inside skeleton and blood system that circulates through blood. lungs, or gills |
| Fish | Cold-Blooded Animal and Vertebrate |
| Skeletons made of cartilage | Sharks, Rays, and Dogfish |
| Born with gills in water, but develop lungs as adults and live on land. | Amphibians |
| Most amphibians are __________________ because they eat insects. | Insectivores |
| Types of amphibians | Frogs, Toads, Salamanders, and Newts |
| Reptiles | First True Land Animals |
| What are characteristics of reptiles? | Eggs have tough, leathery shells, covered w. dry scales, breathe through lungs, cold-blooded, generally four-legged with five claws on each foot, and are both herbivores and carnivores. |
| Types of reptiles | Crocodiles, Alligators, Turtles, Tortoises, Lizards, and Snakes |
| What are characteristics of birds? | Warm-blooded animals, beaks (no teeth), excellent eyesight, bad sense of smell, and lay their eggs in nests. |
| Young birds | Fledgling |
| What do birds eat? | Both plants and animals (herbivores and carnivores) |
| What are characteristics of mammals? | Warm-blooded animals with hair and teeth, bear and nurse their live young, |
| Herbivore | Only eats plants and vegetation |
| Carnivore | Only eats meat and other animals |
| Omnivore | Eats both plants and animals |
| What shape are animal cells? | Round |
| What shape are plant cells? | Rectangular |
| Which cells--plant or animal--have a cell wall? | Plants |
| Of what are plant cell walls made? | Cellulose |
| Plants are ________________ because they create their energy from the sun. | Autotrophs |
| What do plant cells have that animal cells don't? | Chloroplasts |
| By what process do plant cells produce energy? | Photosynthesis |
| By what process do animal cells produce energy? | Respiration |
| During photosynthesis, plants give off ____________, which is needed by animals to breathe. | Oxygen |
| During respiration, animals give off ____________, which is needed by plants to | Carbon Dioxide |
| How many organ systems do plants have? | 3 (Ground, Dermal, & Vascular) |
| What is the sequence from cells to animals? | Cells-->Tissues-->Organs-->Systems-->Animals |
| How many organ systems do animals have? | 4 (Epithelial, Connective, Muscle, & Bone) |
| Blood is the _____________ tissue of cells. | Connective |
| Epithelial | Skin Cells |
| Crocodiles | Have long, pointed snouts that are wider at the eyes and narrower at the nose |
| Alligators | Have rounded snouts that are the same width from the eyes to the nose |
| Frogs | Have smooth skin |
| Toads | Have warty skin |
| Turtles | Live in fresh water, salt water, and on land |
| Tortoises | Only live on land |
| African Elephants | Bigger, larger ears, flatter back, three toes on back feet, and both sexes have tusks |
| Asian Elephants | Smaller,smaller ears,more rounded back, four toes on back feet, and only males have tusks |
| When did dinosaurs appear on Earth? | 230 million years ago |
| For how many years did the dinosaurs roam the land? | 160 million years |
| When did the dinosaurs die out? | 65 million years ago |
| Natural disasters that may have wiped out the dinosaurs | Earthquakes and Volcanoes |
| Species that may have wiped out the dinosaurs | Smaller animals that may have eaten the dinosaurs' eggs |
| Weather change that may have wiped out the dinosaurs | Drought |
| Astronomical change that may have wiped out the dinosaurs | Giant meteorite crashed into Earth and raise such a dust cloud that blocked sunlight and brought about cooler climate that killed the dinosaurs' food sources |
| In which era did the dinosaurs dominate? | Mesozoic |
| Which animal is the fastest land animal? | Cheetah (70 mph) |
| Which bird is the fastest flyer? | Swift (105 mph) |
| Which animal is the largest animal? | Blue Whale (150 tons) |
| Which land animal is the largest? | African Elephant (5 tons) |
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