Cells
It encloses the cell and controls what comes in and out of the cell.
What is a cell membrane?
The tube that carries oxygen into the lungs.
What is the Trachea?
This system provides structural support through all the bones of the body.
What is the Skeletal System?
Water (H2O) in the form of gas, helps with cooling and warming the climate.
What is water vapor?
Specific characteristics of an individual, blue eyes, blond hair.
What are genetic traits?
Directs the activities of a cell.
What is the nucleus of a cell?
The 2 tubes that split off from the Trachea, one going into each lung.
What are then Bronchial Tubes?
In this organ system the Brain controls the body's activities through all the nerves.
What is the Nervous System?
The layer of gases surrounding the Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
The deoxyribonucleic acid that carries all genetic information, looks like a spiral ladder.
What is DNA?
The powerhouse of the cell, cellular respiration
What is the Mitochondria
Tiny air sacs that collect oxygen and get rid of carbon dioxide through the capillaries that surround them.
What are the Alveoli?
In this organ system the heart pumps blood all over the body delivering oxygen and nutrients and taking away waste.
What is the Circulatory System?
The layer of the atmosphere closest to the Earth where weather happens.
What is the troposphere?
The part of the cell holding the genes.
What are Chromosomes?
This stores water, food and waste in a cell
What is a vacuole
The smooth flat muscle beneath the lungs that helps to draw air in and out.
What is the Diaphram?
In this system the kidneys filter the blood and eliminate liquid waste through the urine from the bladder.
What is the Urinary System?
Any form of water that falls from the sky and reaches the ground.
What is precipitation?
A gene that gets expressed more strongly than the other genes of a particular trait that a person carries (eye color, hair color).
What is a dominant gene?
This is a jelly like substance that supports a cell and its organelles
What is Cytoplasm
The main organs of the Respiratory System.
What are the lungs?
In this system, the stomach breaks down food so nutrients can be absorbed and excretes solid waste.
What is the digestive system.
The average weather pattern of a region over a long period of time.
What is climate?
A gene that does not get expressed. If a person has brown eyes, the blue eye gene did not get expressed.
What is a recessive gene?