Living Things
The mistaken idea that living things arise from nonliving sources.
What is spontaneous generation?
Tiny cell structure that carries out a specific function within a cell.
What is an organelle?
A group of organs that work together, performing major functions.
What is an organ system?
What is the atmosphere?
Water, food, space, and homeostasis.
What are the basic needs of living things?
A thin, flexible barrier that surrounds a cell and controls which substances pass into and out of the cell.
What is the cell membrane?
The 6 important nutrients you get from food.
What are carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals and water?
The ability to cause change.
What is energy?
Proteins that speed up chemical reactions in the body.
What are enzymes?
Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
What is the Linnaean Classification System?
A large oval organelle that contains the cell's genetic material in the form of DNA and controls many of the cell's activities.
What is the nucleus?
Two passages that direct air into the lungs.
What are bronchi?
Features such as coastlines, dunes, and mountains.
What are landforms?
A small filtering systems in the kidneys that removes wastes from blood and produces urine.
What is a nephron?
Echinoderms, Arthropods, Mollusks, Worms, Cnidarians and Sponges.
What are invertebrates?
A rod-shaped organelle that converts energy stored in food to energy the cell can use to live and function.
What is the mitochondria?
A blood vessel that carries blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
During the water cycle, this is the process by which water vapor is given off through the leaves of a plant.
What is transpiration?
Cells that are made up on dendrites and axons.
What are neurons?
The three domains of living things.
What are Eukarya, Archaea and Bacteria?
A group of small particles that are nonliving and make up all material, including living things.
What are molecules?
Waves of smooth muscle contractions that move food through the esophagus toward the stomach.
What is peristalsis?
Layers of rock below the saturated zone that hold water.
What are aquifers?
The process by which water vapor becomes liquid water.
What is condensation?