Plants
Body Systems
Invitation to Science
Plants 2
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100

These plant tissues that carry food downward to the stems and roots

What are phloem?

100

The __________ connect the kidneys to the bladder.

What are the ureters?

100

A distinct type of organism

What is a species?

100

The brain and spinal cords are part of this system.

What is the central nervous system?

100

This branch of biology studies the relationshps between organisms in their environment.

What is ecology?

200
The scientific term for a flowering plant

What is an angiosperm?

200

This is the tough membrane that encloses the heart.

What is the pericardium? 

200

The sum of all chemical processes of life.

What is metabolism?

200

This portion of the body contains most of the vital organs.

What is the trunk?

200

The first part of an animal's scientific name.

What is genus?

300

This process is how plants manufacture their food

What is photosynthesis?

300

These main layers of skin have the dead, outermost layers.

What is the epidermis?

300

The study of reasoning

What is logic?

300

The air sacs in the lungs.

What are alveoli?

300

A sensible explanation to a scientific problem.

What is a hypothesis?

400

Grains are examples of fruits from the plants of this family.

What is the grass family?

400

The scientific name for the windpipe.

What is the trachea?

400

This type of symmetry means an organism can be cut into equal halves in only one direction.

What is bilateral symmetry?

400

The main divisions of the skeleton are the axial skeleton and this skeleton.

What is the appendicular skeleton?

400

This man developed the scientific method.

Who is Sir Francis Bacon?
500

The process of water in the soil entering a root's root hairs.

What is osmosis?

500

This gland is considered the "master gland".

What is the pituitary gland?

500

A properly designed experiment should have this many variables.

What is one?

500

These are the largest blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart.

What are arteries?

500

A scientific idea that has survived many experiements and observations withouth ever being proven false.

What is a law?