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estelle ch. 2
review for chapterr 2 p 36-47
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| All living thingss have these | Cells |
| What is a membrane covered structure that contains all of the materials necessary for life & has DNA & cytoplasm? | Cell |
| What is anything that changes the affects of the activities of an organism? | Stimulus |
| What do your nerve & muscle cells do? | transport signals & your muscle cells are specialized for movement |
| What is the aintenance of a constant internal state in a changing environment? | homeostasis |
| What temperature does your body maintain? | 37 degrees celcius |
| What are some ways your body can respond? | shivering when your cold & sweating when you get hot |
| What is your body trying to do when it sweats or shivers? | return itself back to normal |
| What is the reproduction of sex cells from 2 parents unite & produces offsrping that share traits of both parents? | sexual reproduction |
| what is reproduction that doesnt involve the union of sex cells & the offspring is identical to one parent? | asexual reproducton |
| what is the passing of genetic traits from parent to offspring? | heredity |
| what is deoxyribonucleic acid? | DNA |
| What is the total of all chemical activities that the organism performs? | metabolism |
| what happens when a single celled organism grows during their life period? | the cell gets larger & then divides making other organisms |
| what percent of yur body is made of water | 70% |
| what are the basic needs of an organism? | water, air, food, & a place to live |
| what is air a combination of? | oxygen & carbon dioxide |
| What is green organisms change energy in sunlight to b=energy stored in food? | photosynthesis |
| what might happen because space on earth is limited? | there will be competition for necessities |
| what is an oragnism that can make its own food | producer |
| whats an organism that eats other organisms | consumer |
| what arr organisms that get their food by breaking down nutrieunts in dead organisms | decomposers |
| what is a frog & what is a mushroom | frog-consumer mushroom-decomposer |
| whats a substance made of 2 or more atoms combined? | molecule |
| what are large molecules that are made of amino acids | proteins |
| what protein starts & speeds up chemical reactions | enzyme |
| what are molecules made up of sugar | carbohydrate |
| what are you eatingf when yur eating a mashed potatoe | potaoe plants stored starch |
| what are compunds tht cannot mix with water | lipids |
| what are molecules tht form much of the cell membrane? | phospholipids |
| what is differnece & similarities of fats & oils | they are lipids that store enrgy & fats are solid & oils are liquids at room temp |
| what is major carrying molecule in a cell | ATP |