Cell Basics
This is the smallest unit of life.
What is a cell?
This organelle makes proteins
What is the ribosome?
Name the process when the body breaks down food into chemicals the cell can use
What is digestion?
What term describes all living things?
What is organism?
Why do cells need water?
What is water helps with chemical reactions within the cell and helps move materials in and out of the cell.
The scientist who first used the word "cell" after looking at cork through a microscope, what was his nmae?
Who was Robert Hooke
Which organelle stores materials like water and waste?
What is a vacuole?
What is an example of a simple carbohydrate?
What is sugar? (Or an example from every day food)
Which type of cell stores iron?
What is a red blood cell?
What is the suggested amount of water humans need every day?
What is eight (8) ounce glasses ?
What does it mean if something is microscopic? Use your own words to describe.
What is too small to be seen without a microscope?
Name the organelle that contains DNA and controls most cell activities?
What is the nucleus?
Name at least three steps in the digestive process
What is:
chewing in the mouth-food further breaks down in the stomach/intestines-nutrients absorbed into the blood (or into the cell)-used for energy- waste is eliminated.
What does the red blood cell carry around your body?
What is oxygen?
What waste product removes salt and helps cool your body down?
What is sweat? (or sweating)
Explain why adults have more cells than children do.
What is : their bodies are larger and have built more tissues and organs as they grew.
Describe the cell membrane and it's function
What is a "wall" around the cell that controls what enters and exits the cell?
A koala is a herbivore, describe it's diet
What is the koala gets nutrients from one food or eats only plants?
Where is the DNA "blueprint" located?
What is the nuclues?
Explain why some animals need to drink more water than others, be specific.
What is their size, their climate and/or activity level?
Using the idea of a cell is like a city- what job would the mitochondria have?
What is the power plant?
Which organelle acts like the post office of the cell?
What is the Golgi Body (or apparatus)?
What is it called when an organism gets it's nutrient from many sources?
What is an Omnivore?
What cells are the body's defense system?
What are white blood cells?
Name at least one organelle that manages waste in the cell and describe it's function.
What is:
vacuole (stores and helps remove waste)
lysosome (breaks down waste and old organelles)
cell membrane (helps export waste out of the cell.)