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Basic Science
Ch. 1 Cells
Ch. 2 Classifying Living Things
Ch. 3 Plant Growth and Reproduction
Ch. 4 Animal Growth & Reproduction
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A tool that makes small objects appear larger
What is a microscope
100
Basic unit of life
What is the cell
100
An animal with a backbone
What is vertebrate
100
Plant that produces naked seeds (pine tree)
What is gymnosperm
100
Process by which most cells divide
What is mitosis
200
A tool that measures the amount of matter in an object – the object’s mass
What is a balance
200
Directs all of a cell’s activities, contains the DNA
What is the nucleus
200
An animal without a backbone
What is invertebrate
200
Flowering plant, which has seeds protected by a fruit
What is angiosperm
200
Stages that a living thing passes through as it grows and changes
What is life cycle
300
A series of steps that scientists use when performing an experiment
What is scientific method
300
Called the power house of a cell, it releases energy from nutrients
What is mitochondria
300
Scientists classify living organisms into major, large groups called
What is kingdoms
300
When seeds sprout
What is germinate
300
Before a cell starts mitosis, the chromosomes make copies of themselves
What is interphase
400
An Educated guess
What is hypothesis
400
Name 2 differences between a plant cell and an animal cell
What is plant cell has cell wall, central vacuole, chloroplast
400
Name the 4 of the 5 kingdoms
What is plant, animal, fungi, protists, and bacteria
400
Anchors plants firmly and can absorb water from deep in the ground (carrot, beets are examples)
What is taproots
400
During mitosis, the chromosomes meet in the middle
What is metaphase
500
To test a hypothesis, you plan and conduct a procedure called an
What is an experiment
500
Group of cells that work together to perform a certain function
What is tissue
500
Name the groups organisms are classified in from largest to smallest
What is kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species
500
Explain photosynthesis
What is water, light, carbon dioxide combine to create sugar and oxygen
500
During mitosis, the chromosomes separate and move away
What is anaphase