Molecules to Organisms
System that includes the nose, trachea, and lungs that brings oxygen into the body.
What is the Respiratory System?
A characteristic that is not inherited and developed during life.
What are acquired traits?
The power that lets living things grow, move, and do things.
What is energy?
Scientific estimate of the weather conditions that are likely to occur in the near future.
What is a Forecast?
One of the 4 compass directions, usually on pointing to the right side of a map.
What is the east?
Substance in food that provides nourishment essential for life.
What are nutrients?
A group of people or living things born around the same time.
What is a generation?
Become bigger or greater in amount.
What is increase?
Edge of a mass of warm air that rises over colder air, usually causing steady precipitation.
What is a Warm Front?
One of the 4 compass directions, usually pointing to lowest on a map.
What is the south?
Excess material from food that leaves your body when it is no longer needed.
What is waste?
Tiny instructions inside an organism's body that determine traits.
What are genetics?
Become smaller or lesser in amount.
What is decrease?
Edge of a cool air mass that usually causes thunderstorms or severe weather.
What is a Cold Front?
One of the 4 compass directions, usually pointing to the left side of a map.
What is the west?
Colorless/odorless gas needed for animal and plant life.
What is oxygen?
A large membranous tube reinforced by rings of cartilage, extending from the larynx to the bronchial tubes and conveying air to and from the lungs.
What is a trachea?
Living things that break down dead organisms.
What are decomposers?
Uses radio waves to locate precipitation and high winds. Common use is to inform the public.
What is the Doppler radar/ Radar?
One of the 4 compass directions, usually highest on a map.
What is the north?
System that includes the heart, blood, and vessels that transports gases and nutrients through the body.
What is the Circulatory System?
The brain and spinal cord communicating and receiving messages from around the body.
What is the Nervous System?
An organism that gets their energy by eating other organisms.
What is a Consumer?
A warm ocean current that originates in the Gulf of Mexico and flows northeastward along the eastern coast of the United States.
What is the Gulf Stream?
A line on a graph that shows measurements.
What is the axis?