General Life Science
Animal or Plant?
Coral
From the list below, which are NOT fruit?
a. apple
b. banana
c. cucumber
d. eggplant
e. carrot
Carrot
This is the number of muscles there are in one finger.
What is "0"?
Coldest biome.
What is "Tundra"?
List all 3 Kingdoms of Life we learned this year.
Plantae, Fungi, Animalia
This is a key you use to help classifying organisms. You typically are given 2 options to choose from.
What is a "dichotomy key"?
What is a pollinator and what do they do?
Living organism that transfers pollen to other plants.
Helps with pollination process.
In the Muscle Lab, this is what the yarn represented.
What are "tendons"?
Largest overall biome.
What is "Marine"?
This is what's used around the world so that all scientists (regardless of what language they speak) know what organism is being discussed.
What is "scientific name"?
This is the "study of classifying organisms
What is "Taxonomy"?
These are the 5 benefits of plants.
What are....
- food
- medicine
- materials
- oxygen
- improve the environment
Finish the statements regarding our Digestion Lab...
Potato Chips = Food
Water = Saliva
Paper Towel =
Vinegar =
Paper Towel = Intestines
Vinegar = Stomach Acid
Scenario: The hard beak of a parrotfish used to eat coral.
Behavioral or Physical adaptation?
Physical
This is the step of the scientific method that comes after "Question" but before "Hypothesis".
What is "Research?
This is a nonliving thing that requires a host to reproduce.
What is a "virus"?
List 2 natural pesticides/insecticides you can use in a garden instead of dangerous chemicals.
What are...
- ladybugs
- vegetable oil
- cinnamon
These are 2 body systems that work together to bring oxygen to the bloodstream and move it around the body. Body parts consist of the lungs, veins, arteries, and capillaries.
What are the "respiratory and circulatory systems"?
Name the scientist who theorized "evolution".
This is the animal he did his research on.
Who is "Charles Darwin"?
What are "finches"?
What are two things you can do to promote and support pollinators?
- plant different colored flowers
- plant different shaped flowers
- don't kill!
- provide water
Draw a quick sketch of a food chain and a food web.
Food chain should be linear.
Food web should be interwoven and complicated.
During photosynthesis, 3 things are needed and 2 things are created. What are those?
Sunlight + Water + Carbon Dioxide = Oxygen + Sugar
This is the name of an involuntary action in response to a stimulus.
What is a "reflex"?
From the list below, identify 1 producer, 1 primary consumer, and 1 apex predator.
- bunny
- fox
- whale
- lettuce
Producer: lettuce
Primary Consumer: bunny
Apex: fox
An animal is lightly colored, able to store water for long periods of time and have wide hooves to be able to walk on uneven surfaces without falling or sinking into the ground.
Which biome would it typically be found in?
Desert