Point to the part of the microscope that contains the 10x lens that you look through
What is the eyepiece?
100
True or false: cancer is not one disease, but a collection of 100s of different diseases.
TRUE
100
This is the name for the process of cell division.
What is mitosis?
100
Scientists use these to study things that are too big, too small or too dangerous to study any other way
What is models? or What is a model?
200
An organism that has many cells, that perform many different specific jobs, and is composed of tissues, is known as this.
What is a multicellular organism?
200
Cells were discovered because scientists were able to look at very small things using this tool
What is the microscope?
200
The primary difference between cancer cells and healthy/normal cells is this
What is the uncontrolled division of cells, creating more cells.
200
Living things in an ecosystem are called "biotic factors," while non-living things are called _______?
What is abiotic factors?
200
The longest day of the year and the shortest day of the year are known as the summer and winter ____________.
What is solstice?
300
These cells have no true nucleus and are usually part of unicellular organisms
What is prokaryotic cells?
300
When we look at cells through the microscopes at school we are studying at the microscopic level. When we zoom in to look at things that are one billionth of an inch big, we are looking at the __________ level
What is nanoscopic?
300
A cancerous tumor that spreads throughout the body is called ________, and a tumor that doesn't spread is called _________.
What is malignant and benign?
300
When an organism has cancer, and it spreads from one part of the body to another, it is called ___________.
What is metastasis?
300
This is the reason why it is hot in the summer and cold in the winter.
What is the Earth's tilt towards the sun (summer) and away from the sun (winter)?
400
This organelle is responsible for creating energy in both plant and animal cells
What is the mitochondria?
400
In order to study a virus, you are using a microscope with an ocular magnification power of 20x and an objective lens that magnifies things by 40x. The total magnification of the virus is ___________.
What is 800x?
400
Describe why some people lose their hair when they have cancer
Some version of: they are being treated with chemotherapy, a process which chemically attacks cancer and healthy l quickly dividing and growing cells. Because hair grows quickly, a persons hair cells are also attacked by chemotherapy that is attacking cancer. After chemotherapy is over, hair grows back.
400
Organisms that have cells with a nucleus, a nuclear membrane and are usually 10-100 micrometers in size are known as this.
What is eukaryotic cells?
400
Name 4 characteristics of all living things
What is
1) they have cells
2) they grow and develop
3) they use energy
4) they reproduce
5) they respond to stimulus
6) they have organization
500
List 3 differences and 3 similarities between plant and animal cells
many correct answers!
500
In 1665, this man discovered and gave cells their name because they looked like tiny little rooms
Who is Robert Hooke?
500
Doctors who study cancer are called?
What is oncologists?
500
A permanent change in an organism's DNA.
What is a mutation?
500
Place in order from smallest to largest:
organism, atom, tissue, organ system, organelle, cell, molecule
What is
1) atom
2) molecule
3) organelle
4) cell
5) tissue
6) organ system
7) organism