Plants
This green pigment gives plants their distinct colour and absorbs sunlight.
What is chlorophyll?
This organelle controls what enters and exits the cell.
What is a cell membrane?
This is the name given to the small balloon like structures where diffusion of gasses takes place.
What are alveoli?
This is what the arrow on a food chain shows.
What is transfer of energy?
This blood vessel is the smallest in our body. Only a red blood cell fits through!
What are capillaries?
This sugar is produced when plants photosynthesise.
What is glucose?
Along with chloroplasts and cell walls, this organelle is only found in plant cells - not animal cells!
What is a vacuole?
A rich supply of something allows good diffusion across the body.
What are blood vessels?
This is the name given to an organism that gets its energy from the Sun.
What is a producer?
This stops the backflow of blood.
What are valves?
This is the main stored form of sugar in plants, lots of this can be found in potatoes!
What is starch?
This device allows you to see detailed images, but whatever you view must be dead!
What is an electron microscope?
This muscle is important for our breathing.
What is the diaphragm?
This is what happens when fertilisers get washed into lakes!
What is eutrophication?
This separates the two different sides of the heart.
What is a septum?
This is the only process that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
What is photosynthesis?
This prokaryote contains plasmids and can have flagella.
What is bacteria?
These muscles are found between our ribs!
What are intercostal muscles?
This describes each level on a food chain and pyramid.
What is fibrinogen?
This is added to glucose to create proteins for plant growth.
What is nitrogen?
This undifferentiated cell can become any cell type.
What is a stem cell?
This device is used to model breathing - it's not very accurate!
What is the Bell Jar?
These important organisms help recycle nutrients.
What are decomposers?
This describes a blockage of the blood vessel from a build up of cholesterol.
What is an atherosclerotic plaque?