Elements, Compounds, and Mixtures
The smallest unit that makes up an element.
What is an atom?
The part of DNA that carries the instructions for a specific trait.
What is a gene?
The type of change when ice melts into water.
What is a physical change?
The smallest living unit that can carry out life functions.
What is a cell?
The body system responsible for transporting oxygen and nutrients.
What is the circulatory system?
The correct classification for a saltwater solution.
(Element, compound, or mixture)
What is a mixture?
The physical expression of a gene, like eye color.
What is a phenotype?
The type of change that occurs when paper is burned.
What is a chemical change?
A cell structure found in plant cells but not in animal cells.
What is the chloroplast or cell wall?
The body system that includes the brain, spinal cord, and nerves.
What is the nervous system?
The name for a substance formed when two or more elements chemically combine.
What is a compound?
When an organism has two alleles for the same gene that are the same.
What is homozygous?
The type of change when rust forms on metal.
What is a chemical change?
The main job of the mitochondria in a cell.
What is cellular energy production?
(powerhouse of the cell)
The system that breaks down food into nutrients your body can absorb.
What is the digestive system?
When an unknown substance is moved next to a magnet and small bits of metal come out of it.
(Element, compound, and mixture)
What is a mixture?
The chart used to predict the probability of inherited traits.
What is a Punnett square?
One piece of evidence that a chemical change has taken place.
What is color change, temperature change, gas production, or a new substance forming?
The cell part that controls what enters and leaves the cell.
What is the cell membrane?
The combined effort of the muscular and skeletal systems.
What is movement?
Atoms of the same element that have different numbers of neutrons.
What is an isotope?
A strategy allows organisms to shuffle their genetics allowing for more varied offspring.
What is sexual reproduction?
The law that states that matter is rearranged but not created in chemical reactions.
What is the law of conservation of mass?
The key difference between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.
What is having a nucleus?
The ability of the human body to maintain it's state.
What is homeostasis?