Vocabulary
Characteristics of living things
The necessities of life
Math skills
Pot luck
100
These are made up of one sugar molecule or a few sugar molecules linked together
What are Simple Carbohydrates?
100
The smallest unit that perform all life processes
What are cells?
100
The necessities of life.
What are water, food, air, a place to live?
100
Bacteria doubles every generation. One bacterium is in the first generation. How many are in the sixth generation?
What is 32?
100
Helps protects the cell and keep the internal conditions of the cell stable.
What is a cell membrane?
200
The subunits of proteins
What are amino acids?
200
Anything that causes a reaction or change in an organism
What is stimulus?
200
A molecule made up of subunits called nucleotides. Sometimes called the blueprints of life because they have all the information needed for a cell to make proteins.
What are nucleic acids?
200
Each red blood cell carries about 250 million molecules of hemoglobin. How many molecules of oxygen could a single red blood cell deliver throughout the body if every hemoglobin molecule attached to four oxygen molecules?
What is 1 billion?
200
Also known as adenosine triphophate
What is ATP?
300
Plants store extra sugar as ______
What is starch?
300
All living things __________ during periods of their lives. For example, over time, acorns develop into seedlings, which become oak trees.
What is grow?
300
Compounds that can not mix with water. Some store energy and others form the cell membranes.
What are lipids?
300
Protein A is a chain of 660 amino acids. Protein B is a chain of 11 amino acids. How many times more amino acids does protein A have than protein B?
What is 60 times more?
300
Green organisms convert the energy in sunlight to energy stored in food using this process.
What is photosynthesis?
400
The total of all of the chemical activities that the organism performs
What is metabolism?
400
Organisms make other organisms similar to themselves
What is reproduce?
400
A molecule that is made up of amino acids and that is needed to build and repair body structures and to regulate processes in the body.
What is protein?
400
Goldfish live in an aquarium. The tank has a width of 0.5 meters, a length of 1 meter and a height of 0.5 meters. What is the volume of the tank? (V=LWH)
What is .25 meters cubed?
400
Your cells and the cells of almost all living organisms are approximately ____% water.
What is 70%?
500
The passing of traits from one generation to the next is called ____
What is heredity?
500
Maintenance of a stable internal environment is called ___
What is homeostasis?
500
The chemical building blocks of cells.
What are proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, ATP, and nucleic acid?
500
Use the formula F = 1.8C +32 to convert 35 degrees Celsius to Fahrenheit.
What is 95 degrees Fahrenheit?
500
A substance made when two or more atoms combine
What is a molecule?