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Unit A Ch 1sh
Classifying Plants and Animals
Question | Answer |
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What is the smallest unit of a living thing that can perform all life processes? | Cell |
Scientist use microscopes to the small what? | Details of a cell |
Plant and animal cells are similar because all cells have what? | a.nucleus b.cytoplasm c.cell membrane |
What is the control center for the cell's activities? | Nucleus |
Cells that work together have what? | Different jobs |
What is a kingdom that lives on land and absorbs its food from other living or nonliving things? | Fungi |
What is the 2nd part of an organism's scientific name? | Species |
What is the cell's outer border that separates the cell from its environment,and controls what substance move into or or out of its cell? | Cell membrane |
What is the animal kingdom? | Kingdom Phylum class Order Family Genus Species |
What is the liverwort? | Nonvascular plant |
What reproduces by making seeds but does not have flowers? | Pine trees |
How do scientist classify an animal a vertebrate? | It has a backbone. |
What is an example of an arthropod? | Spider |
Compare and contrast the life cycle of a Burmese python and a garden snail. | The python and the snail both mate and lay eggs. When the eggs hatch the young are on their own. The snail leaves after laying eggs and the python waits until they hatch. |
What is an example of an inherited trait of an animal? | Brown fur |
What is an example of a marking on a butterfly to scare away predators? | Adaptation |
Explain why and how a Canada goose migrates. | Canada geese migrate because of instinct to go where it's warmer and to find food. |
What is a behavior animals are born knowing? | Migration |
What must a bear learn from its parents? | To fish |
What contains the things that the cell needs to carry out its life processes? | Cytoplasm |
What are groups of the same type of cell? | Tissue |
What are groups of tissue that work together? | Organ |
What are animals with jointed legs? | Arthropods |
What are animals that do not have a backbone? | Invertebrates |
What kind of plant does not have true roots, stems, or leaves,they pass water and nutrients from one cell to the cell next to it?(moss,hornworts) | Nonvascular plants |
What kind or plant have a tube like structures that move water and nutrients to all the organs of the plant?(celery,grass,dandelion) | Vascular plants |
What is the first part of an organism's scientific name? | Genus |
What is the highest level of cell organization? It's a complete living thing that is made from all parts in all of the systems working together. | Organism |
What are the special parts in plant cells that trap the sun's energy in order to make food? | Choroplast |