Cells
What is a single-celled organism called?
What is a unicellular organism?
What system breaks down food into nutrients?
What is the digestive system?
What do we call a physical characteristic passed from parents to offspring?
What is a trait?
What is a producer in an ecosystem?
What is an organism that makes its own food, like a plant?
This is the closest planet to the sun in our solar system.
What is Mercury?
Name an example of a multicellular organism.
What is a human or a tree?
Which system is responsible for movement?
What is the muscular system?
What term describes traits that are passed down genetically?
What is inherited?
What do we call animals that eat plants?
What is a herbivore?
This is the process plants use to make food using sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide.
What is photosynthesis?
What type of organism uses sunlight to make its own food?
What is a producer?
What is the main function of the skeletal system?
What is to support and protect the body?
What are characteristics that are gained from the environment called?
What is acquired?
What type of organism breaks down dead matter?
What is a decomposer?
These non-living factors, like sunlight and water, affect ecosystems and organisms.
What are abiotic factors?
What are the building blocks of all living things?
What are cells?
This body system includes the brain, spinal cord, and nerves and is responsible for sending messages throughout the body.
What is the nervous system?
What do we call behaviors that animals are born knowing?
What are instincts?
What is the difference between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems?
What is terrestrial is land-based and aquatic is water-based?
This type of rock is formed when magma or lava cools and hardens.
What is igneous rock?
What type of consumers eat both plants and animals?
What is an omnivore?
This body system is responsible for transporting oxygen, nutrients, and waste products throughout the body using a network of blood vessels.
What is the circulatory system?
What is the name of the molecule inside our cells that carries information about traits, like eye color or height, from one generation to the next?
What is DNA?
What is a sequence showing how energy moves through an ecosystem? *hint: eating*
What is a food chain?
What are three parts of the water cycle?
What is evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.