Characteristics of Life
Vocabulary
The Microscope
Cells
Potpourri
100
All living things are made up of at least one of these.
What is a cell?
100
An individual plant, animal, or single-celled life form.
What is an organism?
100
The two parts of the microscope that you should hold on to whenever you're carrying it from one place to another.
What is the neck and the base.
100
The outer boundary of the cell that allows food to enter and waste to exit.
What is the cell membrane?
100
Scientists looked at ______ before figuring out what a cell was.
What is Cork
200
All living things respond to this.
What is stimuli? (someone doing something to it)
200
Similar cells organized to perform specialized functions.
What is a tissue.
200
The square part of the microscope that we put our slides onto.
What is the stage?
200
The fluid substance containing the organelles. It lies between the nucleus and the cell membrane.
What is the cytoplasm?
200
What is broken down in the body to release energy?
What is Sugar
300
Breakfast, lunch, dinner
Eating
300
Running is an activity that causes the cells in the muscular system to use oxygen at a faster rate. Which system responds by delivering more oxygen to these cells?
Circulatory
300
The three lenses of different powers.
What are the objective lenses?
300
These organelles begin the process of making proteins.
What are the ribosomes?
300
The structures make up a cell and are they considered living or nonliving?
What is ORGANELLES and they are considered LIVING
400
All living things get bigger, or do this.
What is grow?
400
What body system helps the body get rid of liquid waste.
Excretory System
400
The power of the eyepiece lens on our microscopes.
What is 4x, 10x, 40x
400
The center of the cell that directs the cell's activities and contains the cell's operating instructions and stores information that will be passed along to new cells.
What is the nucleus?
400
How does the structure of a white blood cell affect its function?
It is able to contract, allowing for movement.
500
All living this must have this in order to survive.
What is water?
500
To make bigger.
What is to magnify?
500
The power of the eyepiece lens multiplied by the power of the objective lens.
What is total magnification?
500
These organelles convert the chemical energy of food into a form that the cell can use aka the powerhouse of the cell.
What is mitochondria.
500
Two things that a plant cell has that animal cells do not.
What is a cell wall and chloroplasts?