Cells and Classification
What part of the cell burns food for energy?
Mitochondria
What are three things we use plants for?
Food, medicine, fuel for heating and energy, building structures...
What are the two vocabulary words for having a backbone and not having a backbone?
Vertebrate and invertabrate
What does the skeletal system do?
It supports the body, protects organs, and works with the muscular system to help the animal move.
What is the property of matter that determines if it will float or sink?
Buoyancy
Which kingdom of life can make its own food?
Plants (and some bacteria, protists, and archaea
What are two types of plant that have spores instead of seeds?
Mosses and ferns
What are the three kinds of fish?
What is the most important organ in the circulatory system?
The heart :)
What are the three states of matter?
Solid, liquid, and gas
What are the three things all life needs?
They all need water, food, and a place to live/oxygen.
What are the purpose of stomata on plants?
They are located on the bottom of the leaves and allow CO2 to enter. They also allow water to escape during transpiration.
What are two unique ways that mammals give birth which are exceptions to the norm?
Duckbilled platypus and spiny anteaters lay eggs. Also, some Australian mammals have pouches that their young have to stay in after birth.
What are the seven bodily systems in animals?
Skeletal, muscular, nervous, repiratory, circulatory, excretory, and digestive.
How do you determine the density of an object?
What are the 7 kingdoms of life?
Archaea, bacteria, protists, fungi, plants, and animals
What is pollination?
When pollen moves from the anther to the pistil.
What is an exoskeleton?
The hard skeleten, that gives structure to an animal, is on the outside as in arthrodpods.
What are the four stages of complete metamorphosis?
Egg, larva, pupa, and adult
What is the metric unit for weight?
Newton
What are the 5 life functions that all life have?
They all grow, use fuel for energy, create waste, reproduce, and respond to changes in their environment.
What are three ways that plants can reproduce without seeds or spores?
Runners, cuttings, bulbs and tubers
What are the four arthropod groups?
Ants, arachnids, crustaceans, and centipedes/millipedes
What are two different forms of one parent reproduction?
Budding and regeneration
What is the name of the last column of the periodic table that doesn't react with much of anything?
The noble gases