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Life Processes
Houghton Mifflin Science Chapter 1 review grade 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what is a group of similar cells that work together called? | tissue |
| What part of a plant uses sunlight and air to help the plant make food? | leaf |
| What is the green material in plants that traps energy from sunlight called? | chlorophyll |
| What part of a plant carries food, water, and nutrients to and from teh roots and leaves? | stem |
| What s an undeveloped plant that is sealed in a portective coating called? | seed |
| What part of a plant takes in water and nutrients from the ground? | roots |
| what part of the plant holds up the plant? | stem |
| What part of the plant holds the plant in the ground? | roots |
| What is the name of the process that plants use to make food? | photosynthesis |
| What is a function that a living thing performs to stay alove and produce more of its own kind called? | life process |
| What is the smallest structure of an organism? | cell |
| What is a special part of an organism that performs a specific function called? | organ |
| What is any living thing that can carry out life processess on its own called? | organism |
| What is a group of organs that work together to carry out life processes? | organ system |
| What word means to make more living things of the same kind? | reproduce |
| What do plants give off as part of the process of photosynthesis? | oxygen |
| Plants need three things to make their own food: water, carbon dioxide, and what? | sunlight |
| What part of a cell acts like a skin to hold the cell together? | cell membrane |
| What part of a plant cell covers the cell membrane and helps give plant cells their shapes? | cell wall |
| In what part of a plant cell is food made? It contains the chlorophyll. | chloroplast |
| What part of the cell stores food, nutrients, or wastes? Plant cells have one large one but animal cells have many smaller ones. | Vacuole |
| What is the name of the control center of the cell? | nucleus |
| An organism that is made up of just one type of cell are considered what type of organism? | single cell |
| Any organism that has more than one type of cell is considered what type of organism? | many-celled |
| What type of root branch out in a netlike pattern? | fibrous root |
| What type of root has one large, main root? | taproot |
| What type of plant has thick leaves that help the plant store water? | succulent |
| What type of plant has thin leaves that fall off in the fall? | broadleaf |