Bacteria and Viruses
A type of single-celled organism found almost everywhere on Earth.
What is Bacteria?
The basic unit of all living things.
What is a Cell?
To arrange in categories based on shared characteristics.
What is Classify?
A component of a circuit that regulates the flow of electricity (can amplify the signal).
What is a Transistor?
A large amount of mud mixed with water that slides down a mountain due to gravity. It usually causes damage and destruction.
What is a Mudslide?
A substance that speeds up a chemical reaction.
What is a Catalyst?
Characteristics of an individual that can be inherited from parents.
What is Traits?
A nonliving protective shell with genetic material inside of it.
What is Virus?
The organelle that contains DNA, the genetic material of the cell.
What is the Nucleus?
A distinguishing characteristic.
What is Trait?
Flow of electrical energy from one place to another.
What is Electricity?
The process by which earth’s surface is broken down into smaller pieces.
What is Weathering?
The main forms matter can exist in: Solid, Liquid and Gas (also plasma but that is less common on earth).
What is the States of Matter?
A pattern, color or shape that helps a living thing blend into its environment. It is usually used to help prey avoid predators or for predators not to be seen by prey.
What is Camouflage?
A scientist who studies micro-organisms like bacteria.
What is a Microbiologist?
The thin, flexible barrier surrounding the cell.
What is the Cell Membrane?
A group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals that reproduce.
What is Species?
A device that stores electrical energy.
What is a Capacitor?
Naturally occurring rocks that look like a mushroom. They can be formed when sand gets carried by wind and hits the rock. This weathers the bottom of the rock more than the top.
What is Mushroom Rocks?
A type of change in which a new substance is formed. For example: burning something.
What is Chemical Change?
The children of animal parents (that includes humans too!)
What is Offspring?
A structure inside an animal cell where DNA is stored
What is the Nucleus?
Parts of a cell that help it function.
What is the Organelle?
The classification and naming of living things.
What is Taxonomy?
Path that can allow electricity to flow, if closed.
What is a Circuit?
After pieces of the Earth are broken down through weathering, those pieces are moved through erosion. It’s the process of moving things from one place to another.
What is Erosion?
A gas less dense than air that has no color or smell. It is extremely flammable meaning it can burn.
What is Hydrogen?
An animal that is eaten by other animals.
What is Prey?
Genetic material that holds information for making more cells.
What is DNA?
The jelly-like liquid inside the cell where the organelles are found.
What is Cytoplasm?
The taxonomic name of an organism that consists of the genus and species.
What is the Scientific Name?
Circuit in which the components are connected in parallel to each other; each component has its own separate branch.
What is a Parallel Circuit?
A five-thousand-foot-deep canyon located in Arizona. It was carved by the Colorado River over millions of years and is one of the best examples of weathering and erosion.
What is the Grand Canyon?
A type of change in which a new substance is NOT formed. For example: water boiling.
What is Physical Change?
The process of traits being passed down from parents to offspring.
What is Inherit?
A group of bacteria growing together.
What is a Colony?
Found outside the cell membrane, this organelle gives the plant structure. Animal cells do not have cell walls.
What is the Cell Wall?
A tool used to identify a species by answering a series of questions based on contrasting features that have two possible outcomes.
What is the Dichotomous Key?
Materials that electricity can easily flow through (e.g., metals).
What is a Conductor?
After pieces of the Earth are carried by erosion they are deposited somewhere else. Deposition means to deposit things somewhere else.
What is Deposition?
A gas without any color or smell that is commonly found in soda. It is also called CO2 and comes out the back of a car or bus that is running.
What is Carbon Dioxide?
An animal that eats other animals.
What is a Predator?
A medicine that is used to treat bacterial infections.
What is a Antibiotic?
Considered the powerhouse of a cell, this organelle is where sugar is used to produce energy.
What is the Mitochondria?
Cells that contain a nucleus.
What is the Eukaryotic Cells?
Circuit in which all the components are in a chain so that the current has only one path to take.
What is a Series Circuit?
A slowly moving mass of ice formed by the buildup of snow. They are usually found on mountains or near the poles of the Earth where it is cold. Movement of glaciers can cause weathering and erosion.
What is a Glacier?
A chemical that provides a lot of oxygen to help things burn.
What is Oxidizer?
animals with a backbone
What is Vertebrate?
A cell of the human immune system that helps to fight against infection
What is a White Blood Cell?
A membrane bound organelle that is like the trash and recycling center of a cell. It helps the cell get rid of waste.
What is a Lysosome?
A scientist who studies insects.
What is a Entomologist?
Materials that electricity cannot easily flow through (e.g., wood, plastic, rubber).
What is an Insulator?
An extremely cold liquid made from nitrogen gas being squeezed (compressed) really hard. It is -321 degrees Celsius (-196 degrees Fahrenheit) and is used to freeze things very quickly.
What is Liquid Nitrogen?
particles are packed tightly together so they don't move much. have a definite shape, as well as mass and volume, and do not conform to the shape of the container in which they are placed.
What is a Solid?
animals without a backbone.
What is Invertebrate?
A medicine that helps prepare the immune system to fight infection.
What is a Vaccine?
A membrane bound organelle where fluids and other nutrients are stored for the cell. It is like a reservoir.
What is the Vacuole?
—a main group within a kingdom, whose members share a common characteristic
What is a Phylum?
Measure of potential energy between two points in a circuit or in a battery.
What is Volts?
also called mechanical weathering, is the process where rocks break down into smaller pieces without a change in their chemical composition, primarily caused by external forces like temperature fluctuations, ice expansion in cracks, wind abrasion, and plant root activity; essentially, it's the physical disintegration of rocks without altering their mineral structure.
What is Physical Weathering?
the particles are more loosely packed than in a solid and are able to flow around each other, giving the liquid an indefinite shape. Therefore, the liquid will conform to the shape of its container.
What is Liquid?
internal skeleton
What is Endoskeleton?
A machine scientists use to grow and study bacteria.
What is an Incubator?
Is used to stain the cells, making them easier to see.
What is Dye?
the largest and most general grouping
What is Kingdom?
Component of a circuit that reduces the amount of electricity flowing through it.
What is a Resistor?
is the process by which rocks are broken down by chemical reactions.
What is Chemical Weathering?
the particles have a great deal of space between them and have high kinetic energy. has no definite shape or volume.
What is Gas?
hard outer covering that provide a frame for support
What is the Exoskeleton?