Human Body and General Science
The system that breaks food down into nutrients the body can use
What is the digestive system?
An animal that eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
Food-making process of plants.
What is photosynthesis?
Largest known fish
What is a whale shark?
Reptile group known for providing parental care for young.
The idea that organisms better able to survive in their environment are more likely to live and reproduce.
What is natural selection?
Mammals whose young develop in a uterus before birth.
Sum of all body activities and chemical processes.
What is metabolism?
Amphibians with long bodies and no limbs.
What are caecilians?
Color-containing cells that allow some reptiles to change color.
What are chromatophores?
A disease caused by pathogens.
What is an infectious disease?
Dense, twisted cords that hold the yolk in place inside an egg.
What is chalazae?
Early growth of a seed until the plant is ready to produce its own food.
What is germination?
Current-generating cells found in some fish
What are electrocytes?
Herbivores with long necks.
What is a sauropod?
Largest part of the human brain; responsible for thought.
What is the cerebrum?
Soft, fluffy feathers located closest to a bird’s body.
What are down feathers?
Movement of water from higher concentration to lower concentration through a semipermeable membrane.
What is osmosis?
Cartilaginous fish with slime glands that help create a slippery coating
What are hagfish?
Largest snake in the world.
What are anacondas?
Produces bile, filters some poisonous substances, and stores excess glucose.
What is the liver?
Birds born with down feathers and able to run shortly after birth.
What are precocial birds?
Process by which life continues through the generation of new organisms
What is reproduction?
Process in which a caecilian grows a new layer of fat-rich skin to feed its young.
What is dermatophagy?
Looked like giant horned lizards with bony eyelid plates and club-like tails.
What is an ankylosaur?