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Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Concepts 1
Concepts 2
Potpourri
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The basic units of life; the main parts of organisms.
What are cells?
100
The study of living things or organisms.
What is biology?
100
Living things are alike because they are made up of _______. Living things are alike because they have the same basic _________________. Living things are alike because they carry out the same kinds of _______ _______ _____________.
What are cells, chemicals, and basic life activities?
100
The entire world of natural things may be taken apart and put into just 2 groups--- ____________ things and __________ things.
What is living and non-living?
100
Sand, water, and air are examples of __________ things.
What is non-living?
200
Different kinds of tissues join together to form these; the main working parts of animals and plants; example: the heart
What are organs?
200
Another word for characteristics; what you can see or find out about an object.
What are properties?
200
The largest organ.
What is skin?
200
At one time, scientists divided the world of living things into just these 2 main groups or kingdoms.
What are the plant kingdom and the animal kingdom?
200
A basic life activity through which organisms produce offspring, or children.
What is reproduction?
300
Groups of cells that are similar and act together to do some jobs.
What are tissues?
300
Organisms that live on other organisms and depend upon them for their food.
What are parasites?
300
The most plentiful chemical in the bodies of animals and plants.
What is water?
300
The 5 major kingdoms.
What are plants, animals, protists, fungi, and monerans?
300
These help to build and repair body parts; they help control body activities such as heart rate, and the breaking down of food in the stomach and small intestine.
What are proteins?
400
A life activity that changes the food you eat into a useful form for cells to use.
What is digestion?
400
They decompose or break down materials around them, so that they can be used by other organisms; decompose waste matter such as dead animals and plants and change them into usable chemicals. ex. mushrooms and molds.
What is fungi?
400
Cells carry out several functions. 1. They cover. ____ cells 2. They help in movement. _____ cells 3. They protect. ____ cells 4. They send and receive signals. _____ cells 5. They transport or carry. ______ cells
What is skin, muscle, bone, nerve, and blood?
400
Protozoa and algae belong to this kingdom.
What are protists?
400
___________ and ______________ are things that all living things do. Ex. Many flowers open in the morning light and close as the sun goes down.
What is sensing and reacting?
500
The basic life activity that involves getting rid of solid and liquid waste.
What is excretion?
500
Simple, one-celled organisms; mostly bacteria that live on and in every living thing.
What are monerans?
500
The six nutrients that are chemicals of life.
What are carbohydrates, proteins, fats, minerals, vitamins, and water?
500
How animals and plants differ in the way they get their food.
What is animals get their food from other living things (eat plants or other animals), and plants make their own food from the materials they take in through their roots.
500
The great dissolver of chemicals.
What is water?