Question | Answer |
What is the ‘brain’ of a cell? | Nucleus |
What is the job of the vacuole(s) in a cell? | Storage |
What cell part creates energy from scratch materials | Mitochondria |
Name one thing a plant cell has that an animal cell does not have. | A cell wall, chloroplast, or 1 large vacuole rather than many small ones. |
Explain why animal cells do not have a cell wall. | We need to be able to move and be flexible |
Give an example of a unicellular organism. | Bacteria |
Give an example of a producer in a food chain | Tree, Grass, tulip, apple, carrots,etc |
Give an example of a consumer in food chain | Rabbit, dog, fly, human |
Give an example of a producer, primary consumer, and secondary consumer in a food chain. | Lettuce, rabbit, hawk |
What three things do plants need in order to survive? | Water, carbon dioxide, and sunlight |
What part of a plant takes in water? | Roots |
Where does photosynthesis take place in a plant? | Leaves |
What is the food making process in plant called? | Photosynthesis |
What part of a plant is used to attract insects and other animals? | Petals |
Describe the leaves of a dicot. | The veins in the leaves are branched. |
Describe the leaves of a monocot | The veins in the leaves are parallel. |
Give an example of a nonvascular plant. | Moss |
Explain what a nonvascular plant is. | A plant that does not have a stem or root system. |
An animal that does not have a backbone is known as what? | Invertibrate |
An animal that has a backbone is known as what? | Vertibrate |
Give one example of a mammal. | Human, dog, whale, rabbit |
Is a frog a reptile or an amphibian? | Amphibian |
Define ecosystem. | All of the living and nonliving things interacting in an environment. |
Name an animal that could be found in a desert ecosystem | Lizards, snakes, coyote |
Name an animal that could be found in an ocean ecosystem. | Shark, dolphin, whale, swordfish |
Give an example of an abiotic part of an ecosystem | Rocks, water, sun, air, soil |
Give an example of a biotic part of an ecosystem. | Anything living: plants, animals, bacteria, fungus |
What does the root word “bio” mean? | Living |
Before a species becomes extinct, it is in what category? | Endangered |
Before a species becomes endangered, it is in what category? | Threatened |
What percent of energy is passed along from one level to another in an energy pyramid? | 10% |
Where does Earth’s original source of energy come from | The sun |
What does the prefix “a” mean? | NOT |
An animal that eats only meat is known as a | Carnivore |
An animal that eats only plants is known as an: | herbivore |
An animal that eats both plants and meat is known as an: | omnivore |
In this type of symbiotic relationship, both organisms benefit | Mutualism |
In this type of symbiotic relationship, one organism benefits while the other is neither helped nor harmed. | Commensalism |
In this type of symbiotic relationship, one organism is helped and the other is harmed or killed. | Parasitism |
Each day the Earth spins on its axis. This is known as what | Rotation |
Each year the Earth goes around the Sun. This is known as what | Revolution |
What is the largest planet? | Jupiter |
Name one of the four gas giants | Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, or Nepture |
What is the third planet from the sun | Earth |
What is the sun? | a star |
What are stars made of? | Gas |
When Earth’s plates move away from each other it is known as | Tension or diverging plates |
When Earth’s plates move together it is known as | Compression or converging plates |
What causes an earthquake? | When Earth's plates move. |
What type of volcano is formed from thick lava that falls in chunks? | Cinder cone volcano |
What type of volcano is not very tall and is formed from thin lava | Shield volcano |
What type of volcano is formed from lava that gets sandwiched between layers of ash | Composite cone volcano |
A sea breeze comes from which direction? | The Sea |
A land breeze comes from which direction? | The Land |
What is the climate like on the windward side of a mountain? | Rainy |
What is the weather like at the top of a mountain | Cold |
What is the climate like at the bottom of the leeward side of a mountain | Hot and dry |
What is matter? | Anything that has mass and takes up space. |
What is the smallest form of matter on earth? | An atom |
What are the three parts of an atom | Proton, Neutron, and electron |
Name two physical properties of matter. | color, size, texture, weight, mass, volume, density |
What is the change of state when a gas turns to a liquid? | Condensation |
What is the change of state when a liquid turns to a gas | Evaporation |
What is the change of state when a solid skips the liquid stage and changes straight into a gas? | Sublimation |
Give an example of a physical change. | Tearing paper, folding a shirt, cutting wood |
Give an example of a physical change. | Burning wood, mixing baking soda and vinegar, baking a cake |
Name three characteristics of a chemical change. | Heat, change in color, and produces a gas or bubbles. |
Give two examples of an acid. | Vinegar and lemon juice |
Give two examples of a base | soap and baking soda |
What is the freezing point of water | 32 degrees F |
What is the boiling point of water? | 212 degrees F |
What is speed? | How fast an objects position changes over time |
What is velocity | speed and direction |
What is acceleration? | an objects change in velocity over time or change in speed or direction |
Any push or pull from one object to another is what | Force |
What force pulls matter towards Earth and gives us weight? | Gravity |
Which force opposes the motion of one object moving past another? | Friction |
What type of energy does matter have when it is at rest? | Potential |
What type of energy does matter have when it is moving | Kinetic |
State the Law of Conservation of Energy | Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only change form. |
What material conducts heat well? | Metal |
What material does not conduct heat well? | Wood or plastic |
What three ways is energy transferred? | Conduction, convection, and radiation |
What type of energy transfer is used when energy is transferred through empty space or air? | Radiation |
What type of energy transfer is used when energy is transferred through direct contact? | Conduction |
What type of energy transfer is used when energy is transferred through a gas or liquid by the movement of currents? | Convection |