Structures and Functions of Living Organisms
The smallest living things on Earth are made of only one cell.
What are single-celled organisms?
Any individual living thing.
What is organisms?
All living and non-living things in an environment.
What are ecosystems?
Of or relating to land.
What is terrestrial?
All living things in an ecosystem (ex. Grass, foxes, deer, trees, bacteria)
What is a producer?
Living organisms with many cells.
What is the most important system of the human body?
An area where seawater mixes with freshwater (brackish water).
What is an esturay?
Of or relating to water.
What is aquatic?
A community of organisms where each member is eaten in turn by another member.
What is a food chain?
The system that transports blood and other fluids throughout the body
Bonus: Identify the parts
What is the Circulatory System (heart, blood, vessels)?
The body system that permits movement and supports your body
Bonus: Identify the parts.
What is the Muscular System (muscles)?
Coastal wetlands that are flooded and drained by salt water brought in by the tides
What is a Salt Marsh?
Areas with a moderate amount of precipitation and moderate temperatures. They have an abundance of deciduous trees (a tree that loses all its leaves in autumn).
What is a deciduous forest?
A community of organisms where there are several interrelated (connected) food chains.
What is a food web?
The system of the body that brings oxygen into the body and releases carbon dioxide.
Bonus: Identify the parts.
What is the Respiratory System (nose, trachea, lungs)?
The body system that breaks down food into tiny pieces so that the body’s cells can use it for energy.
Bonus: Identify the parts.
What is the Digestive System (mouth, esophagus, stomach, intestines)?
A dense evergreen forest with an annual rainfall of at least 406 centimeters. Often located in tropical regions.
What is a rainforest?
Land where grass or grasslike vegetation grows and is the dominant form of plant life
What is a grassland?
The process by which plants that contain chlorophyll use the sun to make their own food and nutrients.
What is photosynthesis?
The network of solid materials (bones) that support us, help us move, and protect our body’s organs.
What is the Skeletal System?
The system of the body that carries information to all parts of the body: The nervous system relies on nerve cells to move electrical signals to the body from the brain.
Bonus: Identify the parts.
What is the Nervous System (brain, spinal cord, nerves)?
An organism (as a bacterium or a fungus) that feeds on and breaks down dead plant or animal matter
What is a decomposer?
A plant or animal that requires complex organic compounds for food which it obtains by preying on other living things
What is a consumer?
A group of ecosystems that share similar climates and typical organisms
What is a biome?