Cells And Classifying Living Things Flashcards

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——, ——-, and —— are living things

A

People
Animals
Plants

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Living things need water, food, a place to live, and most need ——

A

Oxygen

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All living things preform 5 basic jobs, or life function.

  1. They use —- for energy
  2. They —- and develop
  3. They ——— more of their kind
  4. They respond to their ———–
  5. They get rid of ——
A
Food
Grow
Reproduce
Environment 
Wastes
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All living things,also called organisms, are made of

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Cells

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5
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All cells have smaller parts that work to keep the cell

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Alive

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Plant cells contain ———–, a substance that plants use to capture the —- energy to make food.

A

Chlorophyll

Suns

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Animals can’t make their own —- because they don’t have chlorophyll

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Food

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A group of similar cells that carries out a certain job us called a

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Tissue

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Tissues in a group are called an

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Organ

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10
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You have many organs that work together in an

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Organ system

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All living things carry out five

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Life functions

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12
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Living things make more of their own called

A

Offspring

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13
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Scientists place organisms into one of six groups, or

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Kingdom

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Organisms in the same kingdom have similar

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Traits

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15
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Traits are used to sort organisms into smaller

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Groups

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The smaller groups in a kingdom include

A
Phylum 
Class 
Order
Family
Genus
Species
17
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Three kingdoms that include organisms made up of one cells are ——, ——–, and ——-

A

Archea
Bacteria
Protists

18
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Tiny organisms are also called

A

Microorganisms

19
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Bacteria have no cell ——- and few cell parts

A

Nucleus

20
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A paramecium is a protists that has a structure which pumps extra —– out of its cell.

A

Water

21
Q

Fungi have a cell nucleus and a —- —-

A

Cell wall

22
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A group of organisms with some members that make their own food ( algae) and some that eat other organisms to live (paramecia)

A

Protists

23
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Organisms made up of cells with a cell wall and a nucleus but without chlorophyll

A

Fungi

24
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The system used for identifying organisms

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Classification

25
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The group made up of one type of organisms

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Species

26
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A characteristic of a living thing used to identify and classify it

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Trait

27
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The largest group into which organisms can be classified

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Kingdom

28
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The smallest one-celled organisms

A

Bacteria

29
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The harmful effects of some microorganisms

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Diseases