Cells & Genes
Smallest unit of life
What is a cell?
What is both of their parents?
a mouse eats seeds and insects. The role of the mouse is a ____________________--
What is a consumer?
The flow of heat through a liquid or a gas
What is convection?
Causes land temperatures along the coast of North Carolina to be milder/warmer in the winter
What is the Gulf Stream?
Two body systems that give the body structure and signals to move.
What are the skeletal system and nervous system?
Speaking another language
What is a learned behavior?
Organ system that includes the heart, blood, arteries, and veins
What is the cardiovascular system?
Eats producers and consumers
What is an omnivore?
Objects expand as they are...............
What is heated?
Plants return water back into the environment by
What is transpiration?
A coastal body of water where fresh water mixes with salt water
What is an estuary?
Two body systems that work together to make blood and transport it throughout your body
What are the skeletal and circulatory system?
Most likely reason parents and their children have similar physical traits
What is they have similar genetic structures?
Classification that best describes herbivores is they are.......
What are consumers?
A push or pull that is applied to an object
What is a force?
Water droplets forming on the outside of a cold glass on a hot, summer day
What is condensation?
Force of gravity on an object
What is weight?
Perform all of life processes
What is a single-celled organism or unicellular organism?
Influences the food you eat, the clothes you wear, and the house you live in
What are environmental factors?
Grass is described in a food chain as a...................
What is a producer because it makes it's own food?
What is the Law of Inertia?
Flat bottom clouds that grow larger and darker during summer afternoons
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
Two body systems that absorb gases or nutrients into the body
What are the digestive and circulatory systems?
an organisms inherited traits
What are traits you are born with?
Hitchhiker's thumb is a _______________ trait
What is inherited trait?
Anything that relates to land or planet earth ecosystems
What is terrestrial?
A change in matter that does not affect its chemical composition (no new substance is formed)
What is a physical change?
What is evaporation?
A relationship in which two species live closely together
What is symbiosis?
The length of your hair or a scar
What is an acquired trait?
What are all are multicellular organisms?
if decomposers are removed from an ecosystem it will affect the quality of the ___________
What is soil?
Causes a wagon to speed up when going down a hill
What is gravity?
Most responsible for the changes in seasons
What is the tilt of the Earth?
High clouds made of ice crystals that form during a high pressure system
What are cirrus clouds?
Stem color of a plant
What is an inherited trait?
Cells that have different functions but need to work together for the survival of the organisms make it a..................organism.
What is multicellular?
All living parts of an ecosystem
What are biotic factors?
a bicycle slows down when its brakes are applied because of
What is friction?
Blows storms from the West to the East
What is the jet stream?
Direction that the weather moves
What is west to east?