Life Science - 1
What is my favorite animal?
Elephant
When two organisms are fighting for limited resource?
What is competition?
What controls everything in a cell?
What is the nucleus?
Word for all living things in an ecosystem.
What is biotic?
The balance maintained in living things to keep them alive
What is homeostasis?
What is the study of organisms and their environment called?
What is Ecology?
An organism that can make its own food.
What is an autotroph or producer?
The process by which individuals that are better suited to their environment survive and reproduce.
What is natural selection or survival of the fittest?
The powerhouse of the cell
What are mitochondria?
The type of relationship where one organism benefits and one is unaffected.
What is commensalism?
A change in your environment that you respond to
What is a stimulus?
Cells that work together to perform a function
What is a tissue?
High biodiversity increases the stability of what?
ecosystem
when two organisms benefit each other
mutualism
What system involves the esophagus, mouth, and diaphragm?
What is respiratory?
What is the largest organ in your body?
What is your skin?
The process of releasing ATP energy from glucose/nutrients.
What is cellular respiration?
The process of cell division for body cells
What is mitosis?
Where photosynthesis takes place in a plant cell
What is the chloroplast?
one organisms depend on a host organism in a way that harms the host.
parasitism
organism benefits from the host, but the host is not harmed
commensalism
How many pairs of chromosomes does a human body contain?
What is 23
Converting water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and glucose
What is photosynthesis?
Organs that work together to perform a function
What is an organ system?
The jellylike "soup" that fills most of the cell
What is cytoplasm?
What are the three pieces of evidence that supports cell theory?
All living things are made of one or more cells.
Cells are the basic units of structure and function in living
things.
All cells come from other cells.
The human body system that involves the heart, blood, veins, and arteries
What is the Cardiovascular system?
What is osmosis?
Describe 4 practices that can protect the ecosystems?
answers will vary
Name and describe 1 biome.
forests, grasslands, deserts, tundra, aquatic
group of simplest organisms without a nucleus are called...?
The smallest living part of an organism
What is a cell?
After something dies, the matter is consumed, broken down, and returned to the environment by these.
decomposer
What are the four trophic levels called?
What are producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, tertiary consumers
What are all the blood types?
A, B, O, AB +/-