MIDDLE SCHOOL HUMAN BIOLOGY
This gas, essential for cellular energy, is carried through the bloodstream by red blood cells.
What is oxygen?
This term describes the customs, beliefs, art, and way of life shared by a group of people.
What is culture?
This is the basic unit of life, the smallest structure capable of carrying out all life processes.
What is a cell?
This term describes a market where a single company controls the entire supply of a good or service, with no real competition.
What is a monopoly?
This term describes a disturbed or unattractive feeling someone might get from someone else, sometimes suddenly.
What is "the ick"?
These small structures inside cells are often called the "powerhouse of the cell" due to the energy they produce.
What are mitochondria?
This economic system relies on supply and demand and private ownership, with minimal government control over markets.
What is capitalism (free-market economy)?
This state of matter has no fixed shape or volume, and its particles move freely and quickly.
What is a gas?
This term describes money a government gives to a business or industry to lower costs or encourage production.
What is a subsidy?
This one-word response means "okay" or "I agree," often used to confirm plans.
What is "bet"?
This system, including the brain, spinal cord, and nerves, controls communication throughout the body.
What is the nervous system?
This term describes the movement of people from rural areas into cities, often driven by industrialization and job opportunities.
What is urbanization?
This process allows plants to convert sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into glucose and oxygen.
What is photosynthesis?
This basic economic problem exists because human wants are unlimited, but resources to meet them are limited.
What is scarcity?
A derogatory term, used as both an adjective or a suffix, denotes something of low-quality, low-effort, or created in large quantities.
What is "slop"?
This flexible connective tissue cushions joints, gives shape to the ears and nose and has no blood supply of its own, which is why injuries to it heal so slowly.
What is cartilage?
This document, written in 1215, limited the power of the English king and is considered a foundation for constitutional law and due process.
What is the Magna Carta?
This law states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed from one form to another.
What is the law of conservation of energy?
This economic principle states that as the price of a good rises, the quantity people want to buy typically falls.
What is the law of demand?
This two-word term is used when someone loses their temper or reacts to something with uncontrolled or extreme emotion.
What is "Crash Out?
This process describes how the body maintains a stable internal environment, like temperature and pH balances, despite outside changes.
What is homeostasis?
This political theory, developed by philosophers like Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau, holds that citizens agree to give up certain freedoms to a government in exchange for protection and order.
What is the social contract?
This subatomic particle carries a negative charge and orbits the nucleus of an atom, and its movement through a conductor is what creates electric current.
What is an electron?
This measurement represents the total value of all goods and services produced within a country in one year, commonly used to gauge how well its economy is doing.
What is GDP (Gross Domestic Product)?
Borrowed from video game terminology, this derogatory term describes a person seen as acting without independent thought, personality, or just going through pre-programmed motions.
What is an "NPC"?