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Unit A Ch.1 lv
Classifying Plants and Animals
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the smallest unit of a living thing that can perform all life processes? | Cell |
| Scientists use microscopes to study the small what? | Details of a cell |
| Plant and animal cells are similar because all cells have what? | Cytoplasm, nucleus, and a cell membrane |
| What is the control center for the cell's activities? | Nucleus |
| What can cells that look similar have? | Different jobs |
| What kingdom lives on land and absorbs its food from other living or nonliving things? | Fungi |
| What is the second part of an organism's scientific name? | Species |
| What are the 7 animal kingdoms? | 1.Kingdom 2.Phylum 3.Class 4.Order 5.Family 6.Genus 7.Species |
| What kind of plant is a liverwort? | Nonvascular plant |
| What reproduces by making seeds but not making flowers? | Pine trees |
| Why do scientists classify an animal as a vertebrate? | Backbones |
| What is an example of an arthropod? | Spider |
| What is an example of an inherited trait of an animal? | Brown fur |
| What is an example of marking on a butterfly to scare away predators? | Adaptation |
| What is a behavior animals are born knowing? | Migration |
| What must a bear learn from its parents? | Fishing |
| What is the cell's outer border that separates the cell from its environment, and controls what substances move into or out of the cell? | Cell membrane |
| 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 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? | Chloroplast |
| What is the first part of an organism's scientific name? | Genus |
| What have tubes like structures that move water and nutrients to all the organs of the plant such as celery, grass, and dandelions? | Vascular plants |
| What does not have true roots, stems, or leaves? They pass water and nutrients from one cell to the cell next to it such as moss and hornworts. | Nonvascular plants |
| What are animals that don't have a backbone? | Invertebrates |
| What are animals with jointed legs? | Arthropods |