What is a living thing that carries out five basic life functions on its own?
What is an organism.
100
What is the smallest classification group?
What is species.
100
What is a fossil?
Skeletons preserved in rock.
100
What type of ecosystem do we live in in Illinois?
What is the grasslands.
100
What is a long period of time with little or no precipitation?
What is a drought.
200
What is the smallest unit of living matter?
What is a cell.
200
What divides organisms into large groups?
What is a kingdom.
200
What is extinction?
Organisms that are no longer alive on Earth.
200
What is a habitat?
An organisms home.
200
What is overpopulation?
When an ecosystem has too many of at least one kind of living thing.
300
What is a group of organs that work together carrying on life functions?
What is the organ system.
300
What is a characteristic of a living thing?
What is a trait.
300
What is an undeveloped animal or plant?
What is an embryo.
300
What is an ecosystem?
What is the living and nonliving things in an environment and all their interactions.
300
What is pollution?
When harmful substances are added to Earth's water, air, or land.
400
Is a virus living or non living and why?
A virus is not living because it does not have a nucleus or other cell parts.
400
What is the fist part of an organisms name?
What is the genus.
400
What is change in living things over time is called what?
What is an evolution.
400
What is the difference between the food chain and the food web?
Food chain- the steps in which organisms get the food they need to survive.
Food web- shows how food chains are related within an ecosystem.
400
What can you do to fight pollution?
Answers may vary.
500
What are some different types of microorganisms?
What are protists, bacteria, and fungi.
500
Name the different kingdoms.
What is phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species.
500
How can you tell if organisms are related?
By comparing fossil embryos and modern embryos.
500
What are the roles of the consumer, producer, and decomposer?
Consumer- organism that eats the food producers make or eats other consumers
producer- organism that makes food
decomposer- organism that breaks down wastes