Water
Carbon
Life/Homeostasis
Cell transport
Prokaryotes/
Eukaryotes
100

What is the term for the property of water that allows it to stick to other substances?

Answer: What is adhesion?

100

What is the atomic number of carbon?

Answer: What is 6?

100

What is the term for an organism's ability to maintain stable internal conditions?

Answer: What is homeostasis?

100

Easy: What is the movement of water across a selectively permeable membrane called?

Answer: What is osmosis?

100

What type of cell lacks a nucleus?

Answer: What is a prokaryotic cell?

200

What is the chemical formula for water?

Answer: What is H2O?

200

What type of bond forms between carbon atoms when they share electrons?

Answer: What is a covalent bond?

200

What are the basic units of life?

Answer: What are cells?

200

Easy: What type of transport does not require energy?

Answer: What is passive transport?

200

What is the defining characteristic of eukaryotic cells?

Answer: What is the presence of a nucleus?

300

What property of water explains why it has a high specific heat capacity?


Answer: What is hydrogen bonding?

300

What is the term for molecules that contain carbon and are essential to life?

Answer: What are organic compounds?

300

What is the primary role of the cell membrane in homeostasis?

Answer: What is to regulate the movement of substances in and out of the cell?

300

What is the process by which cells take in large particles or liquids?

Answer: What is endocytosis?

300

Which type of organism is typically unicellular?

Answer: What is a prokaryote?

400

What is the term for water's ability to dissolve many substances?

Answer: What is the universal solvent?

400

What are the four main types of macromolecules that contain carbon?

Answer: What are carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids?

400

What is the process by which organisms respond to their environment?

Answer: What is adaptation?

400

What is the term for when molecules move from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration?

Answer: What is diffusion?

400

Name one type of eukaryotic organism?

Answer: What is a plant, animal, or fungus?

500

What phenomenon occurs when water molecules at the surface of a liquid are pulled inward, causing surface tension?

Answer: What is cohesion?

500

Why is carbon known as the "backbone of life"?

Answer: What is its ability to form stable bonds with many elements, including itself?

500

What property of life involves the transfer of genetic information from one generation to the next?

Answer: What is reproduction?

500

What happens to a cell in a hypertonic solution?

Answer: What is it loses water and shrinks?

500

What type of cell division occurs in prokaryotes?

Answer: What is binary fission?

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