Vocabulary
Plants
Plants Continued
Animals
Animals Continued
100
The building blocks of life.
What are cells?
100
Plants that absorb most food and water directly into the cells.
What are nonvascular plants?
100
This causes plants to turn green.
What is chlorophyll?
100
This part of the animal cell controls all cell functions.
What is the nucleus?
100
This is the outermost layer of the animal cell.
What is the cell membrane?
200
The part of the cell that stores food, water, and waste.
What are vacuole?
200
The outermost layer of the plant cell.
What is the cell wall?
200
This structure within plants transports food and water from roots to leaves.
What is xylem?
200
This is the usual shape of an animal cell.
What is an oval with jagged edges?
200
Animal cells do not have these two parts.
What is cell wall and chloroplasts?
300
The part of the cell responsible for photosynthesis.
What is chloroplast?
300
Some examples of this are trees, sunflowers, and ferns.
What is vascular plants?
300
This structure in plants transports water from leaves to the flowering parts of the plant.
What is phloem?
300
This is what makes a vertebrate a vertebrate.
What is a backbone?
300
This word means "allows an animal to blend in with its surroundings to survive."
What is camouflage?
400
Animals without a backbone.
What are invertebrates?
400
Some examples of this are liverwort, hornwort, and moss.
What are nonvascular plants?
400
This is the reason animals do not need chloroplasts.
What is they do not make their own food?
400
All animal and plants cells are made of these.
What are organelles?
500
Plants with tube-like structure responsible for transporting food and water.
What are vascular plants?
500
This part of the plant cell contains the chlorophyll needed for photosynthesis.
What is chloroplast?
500
Celery is this type of plant.
What is a vascular plant?
500
This is the reason animal cells do not need chloroplast.
What is they do not make their own food?
500
This term means the way something performs.
What is function?