Chapter 1 - Living Things

Question 1

What is movement?

Answer 1

when and body part moves

Question 2

What is respiration?

Answer 2

When oxygen is carried to tissues and cells

Question 3

What is sensitivity

Answer 3

When an organism reacts to stimuli

Question 4

What is growth

Answer 4

When an organism gets bigger

Question 5

What it reproduction

Answer 5

When new individuals are generated

Question 6

What is excretion

Answer 6

To separate or eliminate any substance or chemical waste from an organic body

Question 7

What is nutrition

Answer 7

The process by which organisms take in and use food material

Question 8

What are two types of respiration?

Answer 8

Aerobic and anaerobic

Question 9

What is aerobic respiration

Answer 9

Respiration using oxygen

Question 10

What is anaerobic respiration

Answer 10

Respiration without oxygen

Question 11

What are the 5 kingdoms

Answer 11

MONERA
PROTISTS
FUNGI
ANIMALS
PLANTS

Question 12

2 examples of monera

Answer 12

E Coli

TB

Question 13

2 examples of protists

Answer 13

Amoeba

Diatom

Question 14

2 examples of fungi

Answer 14

Yeast
Mushrooms
Mold

Question 15

2 examples of plants

Answer 15

Sunflower
Rose
Daisy
Grass
...

Question 16

2 examples of animals

Answer 16

Dog
Horse
Cat
…

Question 17

Characteristics of Monera

Answer 17

• 1 cell
• no nucleus
• some move
• autrophic
• heterotrophic

Question 18

Characteristics of protists

Answer 18

• 1 cell
• no nucleus
• some move
• autotrophic
• heterotrophic

Question 19

Characteristics of fungi

Answer 19

• multicellular
• have nuclei
• don’t move
• heterotrophic

Question 20

Characteristics of a plant

Answer 20

• multicellular
• have nuclei
• don’t move
• autrophic

Question 21

Characteristics of animals

Answer 21

• multicellular
• have nuclei
• do move
• heterotrophic

Question 22

What is the difference between a eukaryote and a prokaryote?

Answer 22

A eukaryote has a nucleus and a prokaryote doesn’t

Question 23

Define autrophic

Answer 23

An organism that makes its own energy

Question 24

Define heterotrophic

Answer 24

An organism that consumes energy from producers

Question 25

Food chain?

Answer 25

Diagram that shows the flow if energy between different ecosystems. E.g. Grass -> sheep -> humans

Question 26

Food web?

Answer 26

Shows what animal eats another animal or producer

Question 27

Producer?

Answer 27

Usually green plants, can convert light energy to chemical energy of food compounds

Question 28

Consumer?

Answer 28

Animals that obtain food energy from other animals

Question 29

Decomposers?

Answer 29

Fungis and bacterias that get their energy and raw materials from other organisms waste and chemical remains. Eg dead bodies

Question 30

Trophic level?

Answer 30

Position of an organism in a food chain, food web or biomass,numbers or energy

Question 31

What are the 7 characteristics of a living organism?

Answer 31

Movement Respiration Sensitivity Growth Reproduction Excretion Nutrition

Question 32

What is the equation for aerobic respiration?

Answer 32

Glucose + Oxygen -> Carbon Dioxide + Water

Question 33

What is the equation for anaerobic respiration?

Answer 33

Glucose -> Ethanol + Carbon Dioxide