Cells
Makes up all living things (also known as the simplest unit of life)
What is a Cell?
A system that provides support and protection for the body (includes bones)
What is the skeletal system?
Changes in physical structure, function, or behavior that allow an organism or species to survive and reproduce in a given environment.
What is adaptation?
An nonliving factor that affects the organisms in an ecosystem
What is an abiotic factor?
a new organism produced by one or more parents
What is an offspring?
TRIPLE JEOPARDY
An organism made up of one cell
What is an unicellular organism?
A system that allows the body to move using different types of muscles. (skeletal, smooth, cardiac)
What is the muscular system?
An organism's particular role in an ecosystem, or how it makes its living.
What is a niche?
a group of organs working together to perform a vital function in the body
What is a body system?
gene whose trait always shows itself
What is a dominate gene?
an organism that is made of more than one cell
What is a multicellular organism?
A system that allows organisms to breathe (take in oxygen and get rid of carbon dioxide)
What is the respiratory system?
A habitat in which the fresh water of a river meets the salt water of the ocean.
What is an estuary?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Process by which plants use sunlight to make sugar for food
What is photosynthesis?
Gene that is hidden when the dominant gene is present
What is a recessive gene?
Relates to a specific function (example: all muscle cells help with movement)
What is a specialized cell?
The system that allows cell to cell communications; sends impulses along a network of nerves
What is the nervous system?
Happens when food is limited
What is competition?
The behaviors that are learned and are based on practice or experience.
What is a learned behavior?
A trait that is not in your genes but is picked up from environmental factors.
What is an acquired trait?
Levels of organization.
What is cell - tissue - organ - organ system - organism?
Is the transport system of the human body.
What is the circulatory system?
A diagram that shows how energy is transferred in an ecosystem
What is an energy pyramid?
Material inside each cell that is the blueprint for an organisms
What is DNA?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
A characteristic that is passed from parent to offspring.
What is an inherited trait?