Characteristics of Life
The smallest basic unit of life.
What is a cell?
The type of bond that occurs between two or more non-metals.
What is a covalent bond?
This is where electrons are located in an atom.
What is the electron cloud?
The type of bond that holds water molecules together.
What is a hydrogen bond?
There is enough of what in the human body to stretch from the sun to Pluto 17 times.
What is DNA?
The characteristic of life that means to make more cells.
What is growth?
This is where energy is stored.
What are bonds?
This is the part of an atom found in the nucleus that has no charge.
What is a neutron?
The property of water that is responsible for water molecules sticking together.
What is cohesion?
The amount of time it takes light to travel from the sun to the Earths surface.
What is 8 minutes?
The type of organism that creates energy from non-living sources.
What is an autotroph?
This is a substance that is made of more than one type of element.
What is a compound?
This is the smallest basic unit of all living matter.
What is an atom?
The spontaneous movement of water up a tube or through a porous material.
What is capillary action?
The largest species of dolphin known to man.
What is an orca or killer whale?
The term used to describe living things that impact the environment.
What is biotic?
This is the type of bond that is created when electrons are equally shared.
What is a covalent bond?
These are the four elements that make up 96% of the body.
What is oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, and hydrogen?
The property that allows water to stick to other objects.
What is adhesion?
The location of a grasshoppers ears.
What is in a grasshoppers belly?
The term used to describe the stable internal conditions the body wants to maintain.
What is homeostasis?
This is a charged atom caused by the loss or gain of an electron.
What is an ion?
Something that has mass and takes up space.
What is the definition of matter?
The substance that is the universal solvent.
What is water?
The number of atoms in a teaspoon of water.
What is septillion?