| Term | Definition |
|---|
| microscope | What allows us to study cells |
| nutrients | What provides energy for the body to move? |
| biodiversity | What is great diversity of life on Earth called? |
| observations and creative thinking | Scientists use what to explore ideas and find answers? |
| multicellular | What type of organism has more than one cell? |
| systems | What are groups of organs that interact and function together? |
| red blood cells | Whats type of cells carry oxygen to the body's cells? |
| cells | What comes from other cells? |
| energy | Cells require what to perform activities of life? |
| DNA and RNA | What are types of nucleic acids? |
| living things | What produces living things? |
| mitosis | What is happening when DNA is duplicated so that each daughter cell gets a complete copy of the DNA |
| respiration, combustion, and photosynthesis | What cycles carbon through the environment? |
| biomes | Grasslands are examples of what? |
| habitat | What is the place where an animal is found in its community? |
| the human body | What has many systems that work together? |
| circulatory system | What system transports blood throughout the body? |
| skeletal and muscular | What systems allow movement of the body? |
| the system suffers | What happens when one part of the system breaks down? |
| help or harm them | A change in an organisms environment can either...? |
| cells | What are the smallest units that perform activities? |
| Kingdoms | What has the most family members? |
| sunlight | What is the original source of energy in our food? |
| by interacting with their environment | How do living things meet their needs? |
| two possible alleles from each parent | What does each box in a Punett square show? |
| a new cell that contains half of its genes from each parent | What does the joining of male and female sex cells result in? |
| the genotypes of parents and offspring | A Punnett square shows only what? |
| fossil records | What are evidence of past species and how they have changed over time? |
| evolution | What is the process through which species develop new traits? |
| x axis | On what axis is the independent variable plotted? |
| science | What is both a way of looking at the world and a set of unchangeable facts? |
| scientific theory | What is an explanation or idea based on the results of many objective studies? |
| scientific experiment | What is an organized method of testing an idea? |
| living things | What can only reproduce with living things like themselves? |
| organism | What is another term for living thing? |
| an organisms genus and species | When the term Homo sapiens is used it is referring to what? |
| species | What is a group of organisms whose offspring can breed? |
| renewable resource | Water sunlight and wood are what type of resource? |
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