Category 1
This is the study of life.
What is biology?
These are the building blocks in your body.
What are cells?
This is a set of steps scientists use to find answers to their questions.
What is the scientific method?
This is the process by which plants use carbon dioxide, water and light energy to make food.
What is photosynthesis?
This is the process by which cells release energy from food.
What is cellular respiration?
This is an animal that does not have a backbone.
This is what a biologist studies.
What is anything that is living?
This is the part of the cell that controls the others parts.
What is the nucleus?
This is the passing of traits from parents to offspring.
What is heredity?
This is where photosynthesis occurs.
What is the chloroplast?
This is where cellular respiration occurs.
What is the mitochondria?
This is an animal that has a backbone.
What is a vertebrate?
This the movement of a substance form an area that is crowded to an area that is less crowded.
What is diffusion?
These are characteristics of an organism.
What are traits?
These are segments of DNA that code for traits.
What are genes?
This is how many chromosomes humans have.
This is when scientists take pictures of the chromosomes, cut out the chromosomes from the pictures and arrange them by size.
What is karyotyping?
This is composed of a mixtures of gases that surround the earth.
What is atmosphere?
These are the weaker traits.
What are recessive?
These are the stronger traits.
What are dominant?
This helps determine the probability or likelihood that an offspring will inherit a certain genotype.
What is a Punnett square?
This is the chance of a certain combination occurring.
What is probability?
This is a change in a gene.
What is a mutation?
This is all of the rocks, minerals and landforms on earth.
What is the geosphere?
This is the difference between vascular and nonvascular plants.
What is an angiosperm?
This is a cone-bearing plant.
What is a gymnosperm?
This is the function of roots.
What are to absorb water and nutrients for the plant?
This is the combined mass of all the water found on earth.
What is the hydrosphere?
This is all living things on earth, including the land, sea and air.
What is the biosphere?