Cells - Systems
Smallest unit of life.
What is a Cell?
This system brings oxygen into the body and removes carbon dioxide.
What is the respiratory system?
A community of living things and non living surroundings.
What is ecosystem?
Organisms make their own food by using sunlight called?
What is photosysthesis?
Traits you get from your parents.
What are inherited traits?
Group of similiar cells that work together to perform a specific task
What is tissue?
This system breaks down food so the body can absorb nutritents.
What is the digestive system?
One difference between a estuary and river that affects which organisms live there.
What is Rivers flow fresh water. Estauaries have salt water and fresh water, the nurseries of the ocean?
These organisms eat plant or other animals to get energy.
What is consumers?
Behaviors you learn.
What are acquired traits?
An group of tissues that bond together for a specific job.
What are organs?
This system includes the heart and blood vessels
What is the cardiovascular system?
One reason estuaries are good habitats for many species?
Estuaries have nutrient rich water and serve as nurseries: mixing increases food availability?
Organisms that break down dead plant and animals and return nutrients to the soil.
What are decomposers?
An inborn beharior which is performed without being taught.
What is an instinct?
Order these from smalles to largest: organ, cell, organism, rissue, system.
What is cell, tissue, organ, system, organism?
Choose 2 body Systems and describe one way they work together to keep the body alive.
Examples
What is one ecosystem that supports tall trees and why?
What is forests because of soil, rainfall and climate.
Grass->grasshopper -> Frog
What is a food chain?
1 way an acquired behavior could help an animal survive in the wild.
What is a lion learning how to hunt?
Name at 3 functions of the skeletal system.
what is movement, structure, and white blood cells?
A person has difficulty moving and is losing bone strength. Which 2 system are most likely affected.
What are Muscular and skeletal
New predators change a populartion of 2 or more other organisms, how?
What is by reducing prey, which may cause an increase in the prey's food source or cause them to relocate or cause them to die out?
How removing a major producer will affect the rest of the food web.
what is consumers would decline, either by dying or moving, decomposers would also decline, lack of "food"?
attached earlobes, widow's peak, dimples
What are inherited traits?