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Unit A Ch.1 lv
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 |
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 |