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Vocabulary
Traits
Activities of Cells
Growing and Changing
Blast from the Past
100
This is a characteristic, or quality, you have.
What is a trait?
100
These are characteristics passed onto you from your parents' cells.
What are inherited traits?
100
Most cells are so small you can see them only through this tool.
What is a microscope?
100
This is a period of rapid growth, where you go through growth spurts.
What is adolescence?
100
This is the type of low-forming cloud that looks like a gray blanket. It usually means rain or snow.
What is a stratus cloud?
200
This is the smallest working part of your body.
What is a cell?
200
These are characteristics you develop as a result of your life experiences.
What are acquired traits?
200
Groups of tissues join together to form these.
What are organs?
200
This is the term that refers to the physical changes you experience during adolescence.
What is puberty?
200
This is the type of cloud you will see on a nice day with fair weather. It resembles cotton candy.
What is cumulus cloud?
300
A group of cells that work together to do a job in the body is called this.
What is tissue?
300
The instructions for your inherited traits are contained within each of your ______.
What are cells?
300
Name one way organs are alike and one way they are different.
Alike: Made of tissue, has a job to do Different: Each organ performs a unique job.
300
This is the gender that has their growth spurts earlier.
What is female/girls.
300
This is the type of cloud that forms high in the sky and is made of ice crystals. It is sometimes referred to as "mares' tails".
What are cirrus clouds?
400
Groups of organs that work together are called this.
What is a system?
400
This type of trait may change as your interests change.
What is acquired trait?
400
This holds the cell together and controls what goes into and out of the cell.
What is the cell membrane?
400
Between the ages of two and eleven, you grow about this many inches each year.
What is 2 or 3?
400
This is the tool the measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
500
This is the cell's control center that tells the cell when and how to do its job.
What is the nucleus?
500
Identical twins have the same inherited traits. These types of twins do not.
What are fraternal twins?
500
This is the jellylike fluid inside the cell, which contains many parts of the cell.
What is the cytoplasm?
500
Name two healthful behaviors that can help you take care of your body.
What is eating healthfully, getting physical activity, getting enough sleep?
500
This is a boundary between two air masses, one cold and the other warm, moving so that the colder air replaces the warmer air.
What is a cold front?