Cells
What is the basic unit of life?
What is a cell?
This system helps you breathe and brings oxygen into your body.
What is the respiratory system?
Heat transfer through direct contact is called ____.
What is conduction?
This tool measures temperature.
What is a thermometer?
This current keeps Europe warmer than other places at the same latitude.
What is the Gulf Stream?
This part of a cell controls what enters and leaves the cell.
What is the cell membrane?
This system moves blood through the body.
What is the circulatory system?
What type of heat transfer happens through liquids and gases?
What is convection?
What kind of weather usually comes with low pressure systems?
What is stormy or rainy weather?
The Sun’s energy is strongest near this part of Earth.
What is the equator?
Which organelle is known as the “powerhouse” of the cell?
What is the mitochondrion?
Which body system breaks down food so the body can use it?
What is the digestive system?
The Sun warms the Earth through this kind of heat transfer.
What is radiation?
These fluffy white clouds often signal fair weather.
What are cumulus clouds?
Ocean currents move in loops because of Earth’s rotation. This effect is called the ____.
What is the Coriolis effect?
Which type of cell has a nucleus: prokaryotic or eukaryotic?
What is eukaryotic?
This body system helps protect the body from illness and infection.
What is the immune system?
In convection, warmer air or liquid rises and cooler air or liquid ____.
What is sinks?
What causes wind to blow?
Differences in air pressure.
What causes deep ocean currents to form?
Differences in temperature and salinity.
Plant cells have this structure that helps them stay rigid and supports their shape.
What is the cell wall?
This system controls body activities using electrical signals.
What is the nervous system?
When you touch a metal spoon that’s been in a hot pot, what type of heat transfer are you feeling?
What is conduction?
A warm front usually brings what kind of weather?
What is light rain followed by warmer, clear weather?
This process, where warm surface water is replaced by cold, nutrient-rich water, is important for ocean life.
What is upwelling?