Body Systems
The organ that pumps blood through the body.
The heart
The gas plants take in from the air to use in photosynthesis.
Carbon dioxide
Structures in the nucleus made of tightly coiled DNA.
Chromosomes
A relationship where one organism hunts and eats another.
Predation
Pixar movie where a clownfish dad searches the ocean for his missing son.
Finding Nemo
The body system that fights off germs and disease.
The immune system
The organelle where photosynthesis happens.
The chloroplast
Different versions of the same gene, like for brown or blue eyes.
Alleles
The largest number of organisms an environment can support over time.
Carrying capacity
Disney movie where a lion cub named Simba learns about the "circle of life."
The Lion King
The body system that breaks food down into nutrients the body can use.
The digestive system
The process cells use to release energy from sugar using oxygen.
Cellular respiration
The type of cell division that makes two identical body cells for growth and repair.
Mitosis
The variety of different species living in an ecosystem.
Biodiversity
Pixar movie where a trash-compacting robot finds the last living plant on an abandoned Earth.
WALL-E
When blood sugar rises, the pancreas releases this hormone to bring it back down.
Insulin
The energy-carrying molecule cells use to power their work.
ATP
An organism's genes are its genotype; the physical trait it actually shows is called this.
Phenotype
A species brought to a new area by humans that harms the native species there.
An invasive species
2024 DreamWorks movie where a robot named Roz is shipwrecked on an island and raises an orphaned gosling.
The Wild Robot
A loop that brings the body back to normal, like shivering when you get cold.
Negative feedback
Besides energy, cellular respiration produces these two things.
Carbon dioxide and water
Two of the four DNA bases are A and T. Name the other two.
G and C (guanine and cytosine)
The gradual change in an ecosystem after a disturbance like a forest fire, until a stable community forms.
Ecological succession
2002 film where Peter Parker gets superpowers after being bitten by a genetically engineered spider.
Spider-Man