What is Life?
Classifying Life
Bones, Muscles, Skin
Energy and Life
Vocabulary
100

There are 4 criteria for life: All life forms can sense changes and respond to them, can extract energy from their surroundings, can reproduce, and this.

What is contain DNA?

100

An organism that breaks down the dead remains of other organisms.

What is a decomposer?

100

The superstructure of the human body is composed of the muscles, the skin, and this.

What is the skeleton?

100

The powerhouse of the cell.

What is the mitochondrion?

100

The smallest unit of life in creation.

What is a cell?

200

DNA is composed of two components, the backbone and this.

What are the nucleotide bases?

200

The 5 kingdoms for classifying life are:  Plantae, Monera, Protista, Animalia, and this.

What is fungi?

200

The material that makes bones flexible.

What is collagen?

200

Combustion requires fuel and this.

What is oxygen?

200

An organism that causes disease.

What is a pathogen?

300

This organelle of a cell contains most of the cell's DNA.

What is a nucleus?

300

The two parts of a plant cell that work together to make turgor pressure and the central vacuole and this.

What is the cell wall?

300

Animals with exoskeletons are called this.

What are arthropods?

300

This is the number of steps in the combustion process that takes place in your cells.

What is three?

300

A close relationship between two or more species where at least one benefits.

What is symbiosis?

400

The process of metabolism usually produces energy, carbon dioxide, and this.

What is water?

400

An organism from the Kingdom Protista that makes its own food and cannot move on its own.

What is algae?

400

The kind of muscle is found in the heart.

What is cardiac muscle?

400

Eating fewer calories than your BMR and activity level require will lead to this.

What is losing weight?

400

The process by which an organism breaks down its food into small units that can be absorbed by the body.

What is digestion?

500

The process of photosynthesis requires energy from the sun, water, and this.

What is carbon dioxide?

500

The kingdom of an organism that is made of several eukaryotic cells, makes it's own food, and has roots, stems, and leaves.

What is Kingdom Plantae?

500

These attach the skeletal muscles to the endoskeleton.

What are tendons?

500

This is the shortest of the carbohydrates.

What are monosaccharides?

500

A chemical substance the body needs in small amounts to stay healthy.

What is a vitamin?

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