Atoms & Molecules
Solid materials shiny, malleable, fusible, and ductile, with good electrical conductivity (e.g., iron, gold, silver)
What are metals?
The skeletal anatomical feature that invertebrates lack.
What is a backbone?
What is DNA?
Term to define the air surrounding a planet or planetary body.
What is atmosphere?
Disease-causing single-celled organisms, often shaped as rod, circle or spirals.
What are bacteria?
The general substances that make up all things living and non-living (i.e. air, metal, living tissue)
What is matter?
The water-based habitat where the majority of invertebrates live.
What is the ocean? OR What is the sea?
Hereditary unit that is transferred from parent to offspring.
What is a gene?
Most common gas found in the Earth's atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
Single-celled fungus, often used in making bread.
What is yeast?
Area in the center of an atom in which neutrons and protons are found.
What is the nucleus?
Group of invertebrates characterized with eight legs and two body segments.
What are arachnids?
Term used to describe a gene that only appears when inherited from both parents.
What is recessive?
Layer of the atmosphere closest to the Earth.
What is the troposphere?
Structure found on some single celled organisms that can be used for movement or feeding.
What is a pseudopod?
Subatomic particles that possess a negative charge, found in the outer shells of atoms.
What are electrons?
Process by which an insect's body changes as it grows, such as a caterpillar turning into a butterfly.
What is metamorphosis?
Geometrical illustration that is used to organize genetic information from two parents visually.
What is a Punnett square?
Layer of the atmosphere where satellites fly, and is commonly called "space."
What is the exosphere?
Single celled organism that can create its own food through sunlight or also find food.
What is Euglena?
Two or more forms of the same element that contain equal numbers of protons but different numbers of neutrons in their nuclei.
What are isotopes?
Term used for the openings found in an adult sponges body.
What are pores?
What is adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine.
The layer of the earth's atmosphere above the troposphere, extending to about 32 miles above the earth's surface.
What is the stratosphere?
Single-celled algae eukaryotes that make their own food.