Organelles and Cells
Necessities of Life
Characteristics
Cells and Organisms
Potpourri
100
These are the basic unit of life.
What are cells?
100
All living things are made of these.
What are cells?
100
Living things get bigger and change over time. What do we call this?
What is grow and develop?
100
Groups of cells doing the same job make up this.
What are tissues?
100
Viruses need this to reproduce.
What is a host cell?
200
These are rigid structures that protect plant cells.
What are cell walls?
200
Living things need _________ to breathe.
What is air or oxygen?
200
Give one example of how an organism maintains homeostasis.
What is a dog panting, people sweating, etc.
200
Groups of tissue all doing the same job make up these, like your heart.
What are organs?
200
This is the first of the two word scientific name used to identify a group of similar species.
What is the genus?
300
This is the protective outer covering of all cells that regulates the interaction between the cell and the environment
What is the cell membrane?
300
All living things sense and _________ to changes in the environment (stimuli).
What is respond?
300
Why is a virus nonliving?
It does not grow and develop, maintain homeostasis, respond to stimulus, etc.
300
Groups of organisms that share similar characteristics and can reproduce to produce fertile offspring are members of the same _________.
What is species?
300
Viruses that don't immediately make new viruses or destroy the cell are called this.
What is latent?
400
This states that all organisms are made of cells, the cell is the basic unit of life, and all cells come from other cells
What is the cell theory?
400
All living things use _______. Plants get this from the Sun.
What is energy?
400
A mouse runs away from a predator. Which characteristic of living things is this?
What is respond to stimulus?
400
This two word naming system gives all organisms their scientific name.
What is binomial nomenclature (genus + species)?
400
This organelle is where energy is released when food is broken down into carbon dioxide and water.
What is the mitochondria?
500
Name one thing a eukaryotic cell has that a prokaryotic cell does not.
What is a nucleus, Golgi body, mitochondria, or E.R.?
500
This is the change in the environment that affects the activity of an organism.
What is a stimulus?
500
All living things keep a stable internal environment. What do we call this?
What is maintaining homeostasis?
500
This is the evolutionary history of an organism. It is used today to group organisms into kingdoms.
What is phylogeny?
500
This organelle sorts and packages materials to move them out of the cell.
What is endoplasmic reticulum?
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