Vocabulary
Vocabulary #2
Do You Understand?
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Critical Thinking
100
The basic unit of structure of all living things.
What is a CELL!
100
Animals that have legs with several joints.
What are ARTHROPODS!
100
A worm is an example of this (arthropod, invertebrate, vertebrate, or microorganism)
What is an INVERTEBRATE!
100
Ants, crabs, and spiders are all in this group (vertebrates, arthropods, mammals, or microorganisms)
What are ARTHROPODS!
100
These are three ways a mushroom and flower are alike.
What is BOTH ARE LIVING THINGS!, BOTH NEED FOOD TO SURVIVE!, BOTH ARE UNABLE TO MOVE FROM PLACE TO PLACE!
200
An animal with a backbone.
What is a VERTEBRATE!
200
The part of a flowering plant that protects the seeds.
What is the FRUIT!
200
This is a type of fungus (sponge, algae, yeast, or mitochondria)
What is YEAST!
200
This animal is NOT a vertebrate (snake, bird, snail, or fish)
What is a SNAIL!
200
These are three ways a flower and a mushroom are different.
What is A MUSHROOM IS A FUNGUS!, THE FLOWER IS A PLANT!, THE MUSHROOM PRODUCES SPORES WHILE THE FLOWER PRODUCES SEEDS!, THE MUSHROOM ABSORBS FOOD FROM OTHER LIVING THINGS, BUT THE FLOWER PRODUCES ITS OWN FOOD!
300
Tiny organisms made up of one cell.
What is a MICROORGANISM!
300
The cottony fungus that can grow on bread.
What is MOLD!
300
This is the green pigment that plants need to make food (chlorophyll, cytoplasm, hyphae, or algae)
What is CHLOROPHYLL!
300
The seeds of a fruit-bearing plant form in this part of the plant (leaves, roots, embryo, or flowers)
What is the FLOWER!
300
This is the reason plants need chlorophyll.
What is TO PRODUCE THEIR OWN FOOD!
400
Part of a seed that contains a small plant.
What is an EMBRYO!
400
Cells that can grow into a new fungus.
What are SPORES!
400
This is an example of a cone-bearing plant (oak, maple, palm, pine)
What is a PINE!
400
Scientists use this tool to observe microorganisms.
What is a MICROSCOPE!
400
This is why WE do not need chlorophyll in out cells.
What is BECAUSE WE DO NOT PRODUCE FOOD IN OUR BODIES!
500
An animal without a backbone.
What is an INVERTEBRATE!
500
Threadlike parts of a mushroom that help it reproduce.
What is HYPHAE!
500
This is the "brain" of a plant and animal cell (nucleus, vacuole, embryo, or cytoplasm)
What is the NUCLEUS!
500
All arthropods have jointed legs. A lobster, a butterfly, and a squirrel have jointed legs. One of these is NOT an arthropod. Which one and why?
What is the SQUIRREL!
500
This is why the cell membrane is called the "gatekeeper."
What is BECAUSE IT LETS CERTAIN THINGS MOVE THROUGH THE MEMBRANE INTO THE CELLAND OUT OF THE CELL! IT ALSO KEEPS CELL PARTS INSIDE THE CELL!
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