Life Science - 1
Paramecia are also members of a large group of timey organisms called_________?
Protists
The powerhouse of the cell
What are mitochondria?
What controls everything in a cell (the brain)?
What is the nucleus?
Word for all living things in an ecosystem.
What is biotic?
Paramecia are covered in hair-like structures called________________________________ that move the paramecium through water.
What is Cilia?
What is the study of organisms and their environment called?
What is Ecology?
An organism that can make its own food.
What is an autotroph or producer?
The process by which individuals that are better suited to their environment survive and reproduce.
What is natural selection or survival of the fittest?
The smallest living part of any living organism?
What is a cell?
group of simplest organisms without a nucleus are called...?
Prokaryotes
A change in your environment that you respond to
What is a stimulus?
The "skin" of an animal cell is called the
Cell membrane
High biodiversity increases the stability of what?
What is the ecosystem?
cell ___________ is a form of asexual reproduction, which paracecia use most of the time to reproduce. (mother, daughter)
division
Describe 4 practices that can protect the ecosystem in which we live?
What is the largest organ in your body?
What is your skin?
The process of releasing ATP energy from glucose/nutrients.
What is cellular respiration?
The process of cell division for body cells
What is mitosis?
Where photosynthesis takes place in a plant cell
What is the chloroplast?
One organisms depend on a host organism in a way that harms the host.
What is parasitism?
What are the 4 main plant groups?
How many pairs of chromosomes does a human body contain?
What is 23
Converting water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and glucose, using the sun.
What is photosynthesis?
Organs that work together to perform a function
What is an organ system?
The jellylike "soup" that fills most of the cell
What is cytoplasm?
What are the three pieces of evidence that supports cell theory?
All living things are made of one or more cells.
Cells are the basic units of structure and function in living things.
All cells come from other cells.
What part of the plant allows the flow of gases in and out?
Stomata
What are the 3 types of extremophiles?
Thermophile, Acid-loving, Halophile
Leeuwenhoek, a Dutch biologist, referred to protists as _____________________.
Animalcules
Name and describe 1 biome.
forests, grasslands, deserts, tundra, aquatic
The type of relationship where one organism benefits and one is unaffected.
What is commensalism?
What do mushroom gills do?
Create basidia, which make spores for reproduction.
After something dies, the matter is consumed, broken down, and returned to the environment by these.
What is a decomposer?
What was described as the “first animals”?
Protozoans
Which natural disaster is the largest threat to biodiversity?
Hurricane