Cells and Organisation

Question 1

What is a cell?

Answer 1

The smallest unit of all living organisms

Question 2

What is a light microscope?

Answer 2

A piece of equipment that can zoom in on small details and magnify the size

Question 3

What is the nucleus?

Answer 3

The bit of a animal and plant cell that controls it and contains DNA

Question 4

What is Cytoplasm?

Answer 4

The bit of a animal and plant cell that is the site of chemical reactions

Question 5

What is the cell membrane?

Answer 5

The bit of the animal and plant cell that controls what enters and exits the cell

Question 6

What are Vacuole?

Answer 6

The bit of a plant cell that keeps the cell rigid and contains sap

Question 7

What is the cell wall?

Answer 7

The bit of a plant cell that gives the cell support and is made of cellulose!

Question 8

What are chloroplasts?

Answer 8

The bit of a plant cell that contains chlorophyll and is where photosynthesis happens

Question 9

What is diffusion?

Answer 9

The moving of particles from a high to a low concentration

Question 10

What is a specialised cell?

Answer 10

A cell that has adapted to allow it to work

Question 11

What is a specialised animal cell?

Answer 11

Red blood cell, sperm cell, egg cell and nerve cell

Question 12

What is a tissue?

Answer 12

A group of the same cells working together

Question 13

What is an organ?

Answer 13

A group of tissues working together

Question 14

What is an organ system?

Answer 14

A group of organs working together

Question 15

What is an organism?

Answer 15

A whole living thing

Question 16

What is a multicellular organism?

Answer 16

An organism made up of many cells

Question 17

What is a muscle?

Answer 17

A tissue needed for movement

Question 18

What is an antagonistic pair?

Answer 18

Two muscles that move a bone when one muscle contracts the other relaxes

Question 19

What is contracting?

Answer 19

When a muscle gets shorter

Question 20

What is relaxing?

Answer 20

When a muscle gets longer

Question 21

What is digestion?

Answer 21

The breakdown of large food molecules into smaller food molecules so that they can be absorbed into the blood

Question 22

What are carbohydrates and lipids?

Answer 22

Food groups that are needed in our diet to give us energy

Question 23

What is protein?

Answer 23

A food group that is needed in our diet for growth and repair

Question 24

What is fibre?

Answer 24

A food group needed in our bodies for moving food through our intestines

Question 25

What is water?

Answer 25

A food group needed in our diet to control body temperature and excrete waste

Question 26

What are vitamins and minerals?

Answer 26

A food group needed in small amounts to maintain general health

Question 27

What is age,sex and lifestyle?

Answer 27

Factors that affect how much food you should eat

Question 28

What is the mouth?

Answer 28

A digestive organ where food is mechanically broken down

Question 29

What is the stomach?

Answer 29

A digestive organ where the food is mechanically and chemically broken down

Question 30

What does the small intestine do?

Answer 30

Absorb nutrients into the blood

Question 31

What are enzymes?

Answer 31

Chemicals that digest large food molecules so that they can be absorbed by the small intestine

Question 32

What does the large intestine do?

Answer 32

Absorbs water from food into the body to produce faeces (poo)

Question 33

What is the rectum?

Answer 33

The place that stores faeces

Question 34

Where is the anus?

Answer 34

Where faeces is removed from the body