Digestive System
Where does all digestion begin?
What is the mouth?
All life is made up of this. The most basic form of all living things
What is a cell?
What is a producer, and provide an example
Something that makes its own food/does photosynthesis.
(Trees)
What are all substances made of?
Atoms, matter!
What is a population
All the members of a species in an area.
Which organ of the digestive system absorbs nutrients into the bloodstream?
What is the small intestine?
These two structures are found in plant cells, but not in animal cells.
Cell wall and Chloroplast
What is a consumer, and provide an example
An organism that does not make its own food, it eats things.
(Human)
What are the 3 main states of matter, and draw a picture of how their atoms are arranged.
Solid, liquid, gas
What should you use to support a scientific claim?
Evidence
Describe the difference between mechanical and chemical digestion
Mechanical: Physical breakdown, tearing, chewing, ripping, cutting
Chemical: Chemical breakdown, breaking down sugars, acid dissolving, etc.
The tool we use to be able to see microscopic things, often cells, but not always.
A microscope
Define Symbiosis, and provide one example
A close relationship between two organisms.
Parasitism - Tick and deer
Define physical property and give an example
A property that can be observed without changing the characteristics of the substance being observed, such as color, shape, size, smell, etc.
What are the 3 parts of a graph you should identify to answer questions about it?
X axis, Y axis, Title
Villi, are located in the small intestine, and serve what purpose?
Villi are designed to increase surface area for absorption in the small intestine.
What important cellular process do all cells do? It is the breakdown of sugar for energy
What is cellular respiration
Describe the difference between a food web and a food chain.
Food webs are complex and display several relationships, food chains are simpler and show only one path for energy.
Name an indicator that a chemical reaction has occurred
bubbling, color change, smell change, burning, fire, etc.
They are connected because a fox is a predator of rabbits.
The large intestine serves what purpose?
To reabsorb water, and prepare waste for release.
The important cellular process that only plants do, in order to make their own food.
Photosynthesis
If rabbits and deer eat the same plants, what word would we use to describe the interaction?
What is competition
A powdery blue substance is mixed with water, the mixture heats up, and changes color to burnt red. What type of change is this? How do you know?
Chemical change, heating up, and color change.
What is a greenhouse gas, and why does humanity care?
A gas that contributes to the warming of the planet, we care because of the impact of global warming and climate change.