SCIENTIFIC METHOD
Structure & Function of Cells
Obtaining & Removing Materials
Cell Division
Photosynthesis
100

Which tool is used in order to find the MASS of an object?

What is a triple beam balance

100

What is the smallest living functional unit called?

cell

100

This organelle is selectively-permeable and controls what enters and exits a cell

cell membrane

100

The regular sequence of events in which the cell grows, prepares for division, and divides into two daughter cells

cell cycle

100
Cells capture energy from the ___________ to make food called _______________

sun and glucose

200

Which term BEST describes the factor in an experiment that the scientist changes or manipulates?

What is an independent variable

200
What invention allowed scientists to discover very small things?

microscope

200

In this process, substances move from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration

diffusion

200

The first stage of the cell cycle before cell division begins

Interphase

200

what is the chemical equation for photosynthesis 

light + CO2 + H2O --> glucose + O2

300

Ask a question, State a Hypothesis, Plan the Experiment (variables), gather data, analyze data and draw a conclusion.

What are the steps of the Scientific Method

300

The principles of the cell theory state that all new cells are...

produced from existing cells

300

The diffusion of water molecules across a selectively permeable membrane

osmosis

300

The process where the cell makes a copy of the DNA is called

replication

300

This organism is able to produce its own food

autotroph

400

How many independent variables should there be when testing a hypothesis?

one

400

One of many structures found inside a cell

organelle

400

The cell membrane takes particles into the cell

endocytosis

400

List the phases of mitosis

(interphase) prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase, (cytokinesis), daughter cells 

400

This type of organism depends on other organisms for food

heterotroph

500

You want to know how different types of sugars affect the color of the cake (darker or lighter).  What is the dependent variable and the independent variable.  

Independent = types of sugar

Dependent = color of the cake

500
This rigid structure helps give shape to a plant cell

cell wall

500

In this process, cells remove content from the cell

exocytosis

500

After the completion of mitosis, two new ______________ form

daughter cells

500

Oxygen and glucose undergo a complex series of chemical reactions inside cells, releasing energy

cellular respiration