Cells
The control center in plant and animal cells.
What is the nucleus?
Physical characteristics of a plant or animal.
The most important nutrient for the human body.
What is water?
The system that consists of the heart, blood vessels, and blood.
The cardiovascular system (or circulatory system)
A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
What is a scavenger?
Known as the "powerhouse" of the cell because they produce most of the energy the cell needs to carry out its functions.
What is the mitochondria?
The likelihood that a particular event will occur.
What is probability?
The two categories of muscle. The first are under your conscious control and the other not under your conscious control.
What are voluntary and involuntary muscles?
Name the 4 blood types.
What are A, B, AB, and O?
A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy.
What is a food chain?
Name 2 of the 4 most important groups of organic compounds found in living things. (Think of how foods are often categorized.)
What are carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids.
A chart or "family tree" that geneticists use to trace the inheritance of traits in humans.
What is a pedigree?
The process by which an organism's internal environment is kept stable in spite of changes in the external environment.
What is homeostasis?
The upper chambers of the heart are the _________.
The lower chambers of the heart are the _________.
What are atria and ventricles (in that order)?
The three possible energy roles an organism can have within an ecosystem.
What are producer, consumer, or decomposer?
Name two plant cell parts that are not found in animal cells.
What are chloroplasts and a cell wall?
In guinea pigs, the allele for black fur (B) is dominant over the allele for white fur (b). In a cross between a heterozygous black guinea pig (Bb) and a homozygous white guinea pig (bb), what is the probability that an offspring will have white fur? (Use a Punnett square to solve.)
What is 50%
The body system that provides shape and support, enables you to move, protects your internal organs, produces blood cells, and stores certain materials until your body needs them.
What is the skeletal system?
The three different types of blood vessels.
What are arteries, veins, and capillaries?
The biome in which we live.
What is the temperate deciduous forest?
The phase of cell division when the cell's nucleus divides into two new nuclei.
What mitosis?
Two X chromosomes represent a _______________.
An X and a Y chromosome represent a ___________.
What are female and male? (in that order)
The difference between mechanical and chemical digestion.
Mechanical digestion involves the physical breaking apart of food particles by various parts of your body (teeth, churning stomach). Chemical digestion is the breakdown of food by enzymes in the mouth and stomach.
Three ways to maintain cardiovascular health.
What are exercise, eat a balanced diet, and avoid smoking.
Name four types of renewable sources of energy.
What are solar, wind, hydroelectric, biomass, or geothermal energy?