Our Planet & Conditions for Life on Earth
The sphere of the Earth that includes all the liquid water found on the planet.
What is the hydrosphere?
The two different type of cells
What are eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells?
Function that creates new living beings
What is reproduction?
What is taxonomy?
Organisms that are made up of one single cell
What are unicellular organisms?
Everything in the universe is made of these tiny units
What are atoms?
Small structures that specialize in performing specific functions within the cell
What are organelles?
Two types of nutrition
What are autotrophic and heterotrophic nutrition?
Name of the groups used to classify living beings
What are taxa?
What groups of different tissues form
What are organs?
Two gases needed for respiration and photosynthesis
What are oxygen and carbon dioxide?
Type of cell that has its DNA in the cytoplasm
What is a prokaryotic cell?
Changes that occur in an organism's internal or external environment that can be perceived
What is stimuli?
What the first word in a living being's Latin name identifies
What is genus?
The 5 different Kingdoms: Monera, Protoctista, Fungi, Plantae and
What is Animalia?
A nucleic acid which contains vital information that organisms need to function
What is DNA?
Part of a plant cell where photosynthesis takes place
What are chloroplasts?
When organic matter from other living beings is consumed to produce organic nutrients
What is heterotrophic nutrition?
The 7 different taxa: kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus and
What is species?
What is Kingdom Fungi?
Three vital functions that all living beings have in common
What are nutrition, interaction, and reproduction?
Part of eukaryotic plant cells where substances are stores
What are large vacuoles?
Specialized reproductive cell necessary for sexual reproduction
What are gametes?
The Latin name given to all living beings that has two words
What is binomial nomenclature?
Kingdom with eukaryotic cells, rigid cell walls and chloroplasts, multicellular and autotrophs
What is Kingdom Plantae?