Rocks & Minerals
The state of matter for all rocks and minerals.
What is solid?
The term for the items found on the periodic table.
What is an element?
A type of energy associated with the motion of particles within a substance.
What is thermal energy?
The basic unit of structure and function in all living things.
What is the cell?
In this type of organism, many cells work together to form the body as a whole, all while performing specific tasks.
What is multicellular?
These rocks are formed from magma and lava when it cools.
What is igneous?
In the modern periodic table elements are arranged by this property.
The type of matter that has a definite volume but not a definite shape. Particles can "flow" but stay together.
What is a liquid?
The feature that makes EUkaryotic cells different from PROkaryotic cells.
What is the nucleus?
The system of the body that communicates and controls all other systems of the body through messages and signals.
What is the Nervous System?
A naturally occurring, inorganic solid with a crystal structure and a definite chemical composition.
What is a mineral?
This is the smallest unit of an element that retains the elements properties.
What is an atom?
The transfer of heat by movement of liquids or gases rising and sinking creating currents.
What is convection?
Name an organelle that is found in PLANT cells but NOT in animal cells.
What is cell wall, chloroplasts, or larger vacuole?
Osmosis Jones was part of this organ system, he protected the body from harmful bacteria and viruses that entered.
What is the Immune System?
The process when rocks break into smaller pieces due to exposure to natural elements.
What is weathering?
The subatomic particle found in the nucleus of an atom with an overall positive charge.
Condensation, freezing, and deposition are all examples of ________ changes, where heat is PUSHED OUT to the surroundings.
What is exothermic?
The nucleus of Eukaryotic cells is responsible for holding this part of a cell, it is the code for cell functions.
What is DNA?
When Drix (the pill) in Osmosis Jones was ready to leave the body, he entered the bladder, which is part of this organ system.
What is the Excretory System?
The only type of rock that fossils can form in.
What is sedimentary rock?
The particle that moves around the nucleus of an atom and has an overall negative charge.
What is an electron?
Vaporization, melting, and sublimation are all examples of ________ changes, where heat is TAKEN IN to the reaction.
What is endothermic?
The scientist who first looked at cells under a microscope. He coined the term "cells".
Who was Robert Hooke?
This organ system is your bodies first layer of defense against infection and injury. It helps maintain body temperature by "goosebumps" and sweating.
What is the Integumentary System?