Cell Stuff
Sorting Life
Living or Not?
Plant Power & DNA
Big Ideas
100

A cell without a nucleus.

What is a prokaryotic cell?

100

The two-word naming system for organisms.

What is binomial nomenclature? (genus & species)

100

All living things are made of these tiny building blocks.

What are cells?

100

The process where plants use sunlight to make food.

What is photosynthesis?

100

Organisms that can’t make their own food, like us.

What are heterotrophs?

200

A cell with a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles.

What is a eukaryotic cell?

200

The second broadest taxonomy level. Linnaeus first devised it.

What is Kingdom?

200

People or animals making offspring shows this criterion for life.

What is reproduction?

200

Plants produce this sugar during photosynthesis.

What is glucose?

200

A diagram showing energy flow from plants to animals.

What is a food chain or a food web?

300

The part of a cell in a eukaryotic organism that holds most of the DNA.

What is the nucleus?

300

This level comes between Class and Family in taxonomy.

What is Order?

300

You shivering when it’s cold shows this criterion of life.

What is "All living things regulate their internal environment" or homeostasis?

300

DNA’s backbone is made of phosphate and this sugar.

What is deoxyribose?

300

Scientists who helped discover DNA’s structure with a model.


Who are Watson and Crick?

400

The jelly-like stuff inside a cell where organelles hang out.

 What is cytoplasm?

400

Bacteria belong to this domain.

What is Domain Bacteria?

400

A plant grows toward sunlight or follows the sun throughout the day.

What is response (to surroundings)?

400

In DNA, this is a nucleotide.

What are phosphate, deoxyribose sugar, and a nitrogen base (A, T, G, C)?

400

This female scientist’s X-ray photos helped reveal DNA’s shape.

Who is Rosalind Franklin?

500

This plant cell organelle is where photosynthesis takes place.

What is a chloroplast?

500

Humans, plants, and animals belong to this domain.

What is Domain Eukarya?

500

This criterion means living things need food or sunlight for power.

What is all living things use energy?

500

 In photosynthesis, this green stuff in plants catches sunlight.

What is chlorophyll?

500

This Bible passage says the fish in the sea will inform you.

What is Job 12:7-10?

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