Cells
Ecosystems
Year-In Review Vocab
Energy
Random
100

This is on the outside of each cell. It allows things in and out of the cell, like a bouncer at Sam's Club

What is cell membrane?

100

DAILY DOUBLE!!!

This is the level in a food chain that eats primary consumers

What is a secondary consumer?

100

transfer of heat through direct contact from a warmer substance to a cooler substance

What is Conduction?

100

This is another name for heat energy

What is thermal energy?

100

This is the amount of cells that a bacterium is made of

What is 1?

200

This is the center of each cell. It protects the DNA and controls the cell's activities.

What is the nucleus?

200

DAILY DOUBLE!!!

This is all of the living things in one species in an area

A. Organism

B.Population

C. Community

D. Ecosystem

What is B.?

200

the transfer of energy from a light source (e.g., Sun, fire, light bulb, burner) to an object or substance

What is radiation?

200

What energy transformation occurs in a toaster? (______ energy to _______ energy)

What is electrical energy to thermal energy?

200

DAILY DOUBLE!!!

What state of matter is the outer core of the Earth?

What is liquid?

300

DAILY DOUBLE!!!

This is the red sausage looking thing on the inside of a cell. It helps give energy to the cell (the powerhouse of the cell). These are only in plant and animal cells.

What is mitochondria?

300

This is the term for all of the living things (multiple populations) in a region

What is a community?

300

living factors in the environment; relating to, produced by, or caused by living organisms

What is biotic?

300

DAILY DOUBLE!!!

What could best be used to close a circuit and get a lightbulb to light up instantly?

A. paper clip

B. cardboard

C. a rusty nail

D. an aluminum can

What is A.?

300

These are three things that a plant needs to produce its own food.

What is carbon dioxide, sunlight, and water?

400

This is what eukaryotic means

What is having a nucleus inside its cells?

400

If a rabbit population goes extinct, what will happen to wolves and grass in the ecosystem?

What is wolves will decrease and grass will increase?

400

DAILY DOUBLE!!!

process where one tectonic plate slides under another

What is subduction?

400

This is what all rocks started out as being (before becoming igneous rocks)

What is magma inside of a volcano?

400

Which of the following substances represents a compound?

A. 2, 3, 5, and 6

B. 2 and 6

C. 1 and 4

D. 1, 2, 3, and 4

What is A.?

500

DAILY DOUBLE!!!

These are the three things that all cells must have

A. Nucleus, DNA, and Cytoplasm

B. Cell Membrane, DNA, and Mitochondria

C. DNA, cytoplasm, and cell membrane

D. Nucleus, Cytoplasm, and cell membrane

What is C. DNA, cytoplasm, and a cell membrane?

500

If all producers go extinct in the food web, what would happen to the mice, snakes, and red-tailed hawks?

What is they would all die?

500

a type of rock formed through heat and pressure of other rocks

What is metamorphic rock?

500

According to the Law of Conservation of Energy, energy cannot be _________ or ____________.

What is created or destroyed?

500

How does transfer of thermal energy by radiation differ from convection and conduction?

A. Convection and conduction transfer thermal energy through solids, liquids, or gases.

B. Radiation can transfer thermal energy through space in addition to solids, liquids, or gases.

C. Radiation requires direct contact between particles for thermal energy transfer.

D. Convection and conduction use currents to transfer thermal energy in solids, liquids, or gases.

What is B.?

600

These were the two German scientists that discovered cells inside of plants and animals

A. Hooke and Schleiden

B. Schleiden and Schwann

C. Schwann and von Leewenhoek

D. Edison and Einstein

Who were B. Schleiden and Schwann?

600

This biome is the largest in the entire world (hint: Seymour is not in this biome)

A. tundra

B. taiga

C. desert

D. grasslands

E. rainforest

What is the taiga? (temperate forest will also be accepted)

600

A rigid layer made up of the uppermost part of the mantle and the crust

What is lithosphere?

600

This is the energy conversion that takes place in a battery when you put it into a remote control (______ energy to _______energy)

What is chemical energy to electrical energy?

600

In space travel, a probe is a vehicle designed to carry instruments, but not crew. To 

which of the following places would we most likely send a probe?


A. The International Space Station 

B. Inside the Sun 

C. Mountain top 

D. Saturn 

What is D.?