Bacteria & Microorganisms
These organisms are simple, lack a nucleus, and can reproduce, respond to stimuli, and use energy
(What are bacteria?)
Any two species in the same domain are more of this than two in different domains.
What is closely related?
Viruses cannot be killed by antibiotics because they lack these.
Viruses cannot be killed by antibiotics because they lack these.
These cells have a nucleus and organelles, while bacteria do not
(What are eukaryotic cells?)
Animals may go into burrows during hot afternoons to maintain this.
(What is homeostasis?)
Doctors sterilize tools in sealed bags to prevent this from happening after microorganisms are killed.
(What is being exposed to new microorganisms?)
Insects with stings similar to honeybees are most likely in the same ____.
(What is family?)
Michaela is allergic to bee venom. Other insects most likely to have similar venom belong to the same ____.
(What is family?)
A major difference between plants and animals is that plants are ____, while animals are ____.
(What are autotrophs and heterotrophs?)
All living things share these three characteristics.
(What are using energy, reproducing, and responding to stimuli?)
Many antibiotics kill bacteria by attacking this protective structure.
What is the cell wall?
Meerkats and ferrets look alike but are not in the same family. This explains their similarity.
(What is convergent evolution?)
The shot that protects dogs from parvovirus.
(What is a vaccine?)
These structures—present in plants but not animals—store water, perform photosynthesis, and provide structure.
(What are large vacuoles, chloroplasts, and cell walls?)
A women's eye, diagnosed with pinkeye, is formed from multiple ____ working together.
(What are tissues?)
These two things in dirty water could harm chicks if not disinfected daily.
(What are bacteria and protists?)
The domain that includes organisms with complex cells that have a nucleus.
(What are eukaryotes?)
: A sneezing farm dog’s infection caused by Aspergillus is not viral but this type of organism.
(What is fungus?)
The basic unit of structure and function in all living things.
(What is the cell?)
Forest fires impact multiple spheres. Name two spheres affected and how.
(What are the biosphere and atmosphere / geosphere / hydrosphere, etc.)
Termites rely on this protist to digest wood into carbohydrates.
(What is Trichonymph?)
These three landforms can be found in Florida: coastlines, dunes, and rivers.
(What are coastlines, dunes, and rivers?)
Good bacteria in the digestive system help with this process.
(What is digestion / breaking down food?)
Patrick noticed that plant and animal cells are different. This is because they have adapted to these different life strategies.
(What are autotrophic and heterotrophic lifestyles?)
: Humans interact with the biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere every day. Give one example.
(What is drinking water, eating plants, breathing air, walking on soil, etc.?)