Studying Life
Living Things
Interactions of Living Things
Chemistry and Physics Connections
Challenge
100
Cubic meters (m3) or cubic centimeters (cm3) are used to measure this.
What is volume?
100
Living things respond, grow and develop, reproduce, use energy and are made of cells.
What are the five characteristics of living things?
100
An _________ is made up of a group of living things and their physical surroundings, while a habitat is a place where a particular type of organism lives.
What is an ecosystem?
100
A ______ is the smallest particle of an element that keeps the chemical identity of the element.
What is an atom?
100
In a graph that shows weight gained and food eaten, this variable is the amount of weight you gain.
What is the dependent variable?
200
A solvent and solute are two parts of this.
What are the two parts of a solution?
200
When animals eat plants, they use this stored by the plants to move, grow, and reproduce.
What is chemical energy?
200
Temperature, precipitation, sunlight, type of soil, and oxygen.
What are the variables that affect life on land?
200
A ______ is a process that rearranges the atoms of one or more substances into one or more new substances.
What is a chemical reaction?
200
Sweating and shivering are examples of this.
What is homeostasis?
300
Observations, Question, hypothesis, experiment, analyze results, conclusions and communicate.
What are the steps of the scientific method?
300
This is the basic unit of a living system, while a molecule is a basic unit of matter.
What is a cell?
300
These are different layers in the ocean, where different kinds of living things can exist.
What are zones?
300
Carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids.
What are the classifications of carbon compounds in living things?
300
These may increase the incidence of asthma, bronchitis, and other respiratory problems.
What are pollutants?
400
The variable that you believe might influence another variable.
What is the independent variable?
400
A tree is an producer, while a frog is this.
What is a consumer?
400
These relationships help keep population growth in balance.
What are the predator-prey relationships?
400
Scientists know the ingredients for life, but don't know....
What is the recipe?
400
This can be compared to the recipe book for life.
What is DNA?
500
In a graph where when one variable increases, the other decreases.
What is an inverse relationship?
500
Archaebacteria, Eubacteria, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, or Animalia are the six kingdoms of classification. What is this process of classification called?
What is taxonomy?
500
A _____ shows how each organism in a community gets its food.
What is a food chain?
500
Carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.
What are the three most important ingredients for life?
500
The species group of Mrs. Jacques and Ms. Recorvits.
What are humans?