Characteristics of Matter
Cell Parts
Micro-organisms
Bacteria and Viruses
Earth
100
Anything that takes of space and has mass.
What is matter?
100
The part of the cell that controls the cells' activities.
What is a nucleus?
100
Scientists have a special name for animal-like protists.
What are protozoans?
100
Two large groups of monerans.
What bacteria and blue-green bacteria?
100
Alfred Wegener's supercontinent
What is Pangaea?
200
The process in which liquid changes to a gas.
What is evaporation?
200
A watery gel inside the cell in which organelles float.
What is cytoplasm?
200
Tiny hairs surround a single-celled organism and helps it to move.
What are cilia?
200
Three shapes to bacteria
What are rod, sphere, and spiral? (bacillus, coccus, and spirillum)
200
The process in which heat energy is transferred through a liquid.
What is convection?
300
Energy of motion
What is kinetic energy?
300
Part of the cell in which energy is released from food.
What is mitochondria?
300
A single-celled organism with pseudopods.
What is an amoeba?
300
Bacteria reproduce through this process.
What is fission?
300
Type of mountain that forms when masses of rock are squeezed from opposite sides. This mountain type often occurs at convergent boundaries.
What is a folded mountain?
400
A measure of the average kinetic energy of particles.
What is temperature?
400
Structures inside the nucleus that are made up of genes.
What are chromosomes?
400
Organisms that live on the remains of dead organisms.
What are fungi?
400
A tiny fragment of genetic material wrapped inside a capsule
What is a virus?
400
The most destructive type of earthquake wave
What is an L wave?
500
Energy that flows from warmer to cooler matter. It is the total kinetic energy of particles.
What is heat?
500
There are two cell parts that are in plant cells but not animal cells.
What are the cell wall and chloroplasts?
500
Yeasts feed on sugars and break them down, producing carbon dioxide and a kind of alcohol called ethanol.
What is fermentation?
500
Some white blood cells eat bacteria and others produce these.
What are antibodies?
500
This instrument records earthquake waves.
What is a seismograph?