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Living Things
Review for Science Unit 1, Chapter 1: Comparing Living Things
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What organism cannot carry out all life processes? | Viruses |
| The part of a plant cell specific to plant cells. (Animal cells do not have this) | Cytoplasm |
| Scientists classify organisms by these traits. | Body Structure, how it reproduces, and how it gets nutrients & energy |
| The largest group into which scientists classify living things. | Kingdom |
| This group contains similar organisms. | Genus |
| For hundreds of years living things were only classified as these two things. | Plants and Animals |
| This organism has snakelike tentacles around its mouth that it uses to capture prey. | Hydra |
| What organism lives on the ocean floor, eats clams, and has powerful suction cups? | Sea Star |
| These organisms begin their lives breathing through gills, and then develop lungs. | Amphibians |
| Dogs, bats, bears, whales, elephants, horses, cows, monkeys, and humans are all examples of _________? | Mammals |
| These plants are small and grow near the ground in moist places. | Moss |
| This vascular plant has long tube-like leaves that allow them to grow as tall as 20 feet! | Ferns |
| Scientists classify flowering plants into two main groups based on: | the number the leaflike structures inside their seeds |
| These cells carry messages from one part of the body to another. | nerve cells |
| These cells carry oxygen to all cells in the body. | red blood cells |
| A name for groups of similar cells | tissues |
| This organ pumps blood throughout the body. | heart |
| Tissues that work together are called.. | organs |
| Name two ways protists are like plants. | Protists have a green pigment like the chloroplasts of plants. Protists trap the sun's energy and produce sugar. |
| Explain how a conifer seed develops. | A pollen grain carried by the wind lands on a seed cone, which has egg cells inside of it. A tube grows from the pollen down the cone into an egg cell. A sperm cell in the tube joins with the egg cell, and a seed develops. |