Question | Answer |
What are the characteristics and needs of a living thing? | water,food,living space, stable internal conditions, cellular organization, chemicals of life, energy use, response to surroundings |
How do you write a scientific name? | underlining it if it's on paper, and you italicize it if it's on a computer. The first letter of the 1st word is capitalized. It need to be only two words with genus then species. |
What is taxonomy? | a scientific study of how living things are classified |
What are the levels of the classification system? | domain, kingdom, phylum, class,order, family, genus, and species |
What is the difference between a stimulus and a response? | stimulus- a change in an organism's surrounding s that cause it to react. Response- an action or change in behavior. |
What is the difference between growth and development? | Growth- becoming larger
Development- change occurs in organism's life |
What is the difference between a heterotroph and an autotroph? | heterotroph- cannot make their own food
autotroph- makes their own food. |
What domains contains only prokaryotes? | bacteria and archaea |
What is the life cycle of a angiosperm? what happens at each step? | Fertilization- the joining of a sperm and an egg
Germination-the sprouting of the embryo from a seed that occurs where the embryo resumes growth
Pollination- the transfer of pollen from male reproductive structures to female reproductive structures |
What structures do the amoeba, paramecium and euglena to move? | amoeba-pseudopodia
paramecium-civia
euglena- flagellum |
What are the parts of the seed? | stem and root, cotyledon, seedcoat |
What are the female parts of a flower? | ovary, ovule, style, stigma |
What are the male parts of a flower? | antler, filament |
What are the characteristics of angiosperms? | -produces flowers
-produce seeds that are enclosed in fruit |
What is the function of fungi in the environment? | -decompose
-provide food
-causing disease
-fighting disease
-live in symbiosis with other organisms |
What do fungi have in common with animals? | eukaryotes, multicellular, heterotroph |
What is the function of the hyphae in fungi? | it spreads fungus to other nearby areas that contain more nutrients needed by the fungus. It also absorbs nutrients |
What is the chemical that is inside the chloroplast? | chlorophyll |
What are the products of photosynthesis? | glucose and oxygen |
What are the reactants of photosynthesis? | water, carbon dioxide, sunlight |
What structure in cell is a storage area for water,food,and waste products? | vacuole |
What is cellular respiration? | happens in mostly in cells,bacteria and even humans. It's when you get energy without using oxygen. |
What structure on the leaf allows oxygen and water vapor out and carbon dioxide in? | stomata |