Atomic Composition
What is an atom?
What is the smallest unit of an element?
What is the main function of the circulatory system?
What is to transport blood and nutrients throughout the body?
What is the basic unit of life?
What is a cell?
What is the process called that describes how energy flows through an ecosystem?
What is the food chain?
What is the term for an organism that makes its own food?
What is a producer?
Name the three subatomic particles found in an atom.
What are protons, neutrons, and electrons?
Name the system responsible for breaking down food.
What is the digestive system?
Name one function of the cell membrane.
What is to control what enters and exits the cell?
Name two biotic and two abiotic factors that affect an ecosystem.
What are plants, animals, sunlight, and water?
Name one way organisms interact with their environment.
What is by competing for resources?
How do you determine the atomic number of an element?
What is by counting the number of protons in the nucleus?
How do the respiratory and circulatory systems work together?
What is to exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide and deliver oxygen to cells?
What organelle is responsible for energy production in a cell?
What are mitochondria?
Describe how matter cycles in an ecosystem.
What is through processes like photosynthesis, respiration, and decomposition?
Describe the relationship between predator and prey.
What is a predator hunts and eats the prey, affecting its population?
What is a molecule?
What is two or more atoms bonded together?
Describe one way the nervous system interacts with the muscular system.
What is the nervous system sends signals to muscles to contract and move?
Describe the differences between plant and animal cells.
What are plant cells have a cell wall and chloroplasts, while animal cells do not?
What is the role of producers in an ecosystem?
What is to convert sunlight into energy through photosynthesis?
How do decomposers contribute to an ecosystem?
What is by breaking down dead organisms and returning nutrients to the soil?
Describe how ionic bonds differ from covalent bonds.
What is ionic bonds involve the transfer of electrons, while covalent bonds involve sharing electrons?
Provide an example of how two body systems can affect each other.
What is the impact of exercise on the muscular and cardiovascular systems?
How do cells communicate with each other?
What is through chemical signals and receptors?
Explain how energy flow is different from the cycling of matter in an ecosystem.
What is energy flows in one direction, while matter is recycled?
: Explain the concept of an ecological niche.
What is the role and position a species has in its environment?