Tools & Building Blocks of Life
This tool allows scientists to see objects too small to be seen with the naked eye.
What is a microscope?
Living things grow, reproduce, and respond to this.
What is the environment (stimuli)?
The smallest unit of life.
What is a cell?
Organisms that make their own food.
What are producers?
The place where an organism lives.
What is a habitat?
This part of the microscope controls how much light passes through the specimen.
What is the diaphragm?
This characteristic allows organisms to maintain internal balance.
What is homeostasis?
A group of similar cells working together.
What is a tissue?
Shows energy transfer from one organism to another.
What is a food chain?
The role an organism plays in its ecosystem.
What is a niche?
This states that all living things are made of one or more cells.
What is Cell Theory?
These include carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids.
What are biomolecules?
All populations of different species living in an area.
What is a community?
The percentage of energy passed to the next trophic level.
What is 10%?
A symbiotic relationship where both organisms benefit.
What is mutualism?
This organelle is known as the “powerhouse” of the cell because it produces ATP.
What is the mitochondrion?
This biomolecule stores long-term energy and makes up cell membranes.
What are lipids?
Living and nonliving things interacting together.
What is an ecosystem?
Organisms that break down dead matter.
What are decomposers?
Succession that occurs after a disturbance like a fire.
What is secondary succession?
This organelle modifies, sorts, and packages proteins for transport.
What is the Golgi apparatus?
This biomolecule carries genetic information.
What are nucleic acids?
All ecosystems on Earth combined.
What is the biosphere?
A diagram showing interconnected food chains.
What is a food web?
Pollution, deforestation, and climate change are examples of this.
What is human impact?