Building Blocks of Life
The smallest unit of a living thing
What is a cell?
The 6 kingdoms of living things
1. animal
2. plant
3. fungi
4. protist
5. True Bacteria
6. Ancient Bacteria
There are two types of plants. These are the categories:
What are vascular and nonvascular plants?
What are the two types of animals?
A physical feature or behavior that helps an animal get food, protect itself, move or reproduce is called an
The control center of a cell
What is the nucleus?
I am a living organism. I have many cells and absorb food from other living or nonliving things. I belong in this kingdom
What is the Fungi Kingdom?
Bamboo is a vascular plant. It uses this to to move water and up and down the plants organs.
What is a system of tubes?
Name the 5 groups of vertebrates
Name two adaptions for a polar bear.
1. white fur let's them blend in surroundings
2. fur keeps them warm
3. they are amazing swimmers
4. they are powerful
Plants make their own food by using this special part
What is the chloroplast?
I am a single celled organism that lives in extreme environments. I belong to this kingdom.
What is the Ancient Bacteria Kingdom?
What are seeds?
Complete this sentence:
___ % of the animals in the world do not have a backbone. They called _____
90% and invertebrates.
A duck has many adaptions. Name three.
1. Its feathers
2. Its ability to fly
3. Its webbed feet
4. Its beak.
The chloroplast is a part of cell that only plant cells have. Plants cells also have another part of a cell that animals cells do not have:
What is the cell wall?
The first part of the scientific name of an animal is called this. It tells us how a group of closely related to another living thing.
What is the genus?
Ferns and mosses are two types of plants that do not make seeds. Instead they reproduce by forming tiny cells that can grow into new plants. These are called
What are spores?
What are arthropods?
The rock ptarmigan has a very unique adaptations. What does it do when the seasons change?
What are it's "feathers change with the seasons" ?
The gel-like liquid found in cells
What is cytoplasm?
Three questions scientists ask themselves when classifying a living thing
1. How many cells does it have?
2. Where does it live?
3. How does it get food?
Imagine a short plant. This plant does not have flowers or cones. What two categories can I label this plant?
1. nonvascular
2. plants with spores
Describe the life cycle of a snake
1. the adult lays about 100 eggs and coils around them for 6-8 weeks.
2. the hatchling will hatch and the mother leaves. The hatchling will now have to survive on its own and fend for itself.
3. The hatchling will grow up and the life cycle will begin again.
Hibernation and migration are