Life Review

Question 0

Minerals

Answer 0

Atoms and molecules from rocks

Examples: iron, sodium, calcium

Question 1

Proteins

Answer 1

Molecule made by living organisms(animals) that have nitrogen, carbon, oxygen

Question 2

Vitamins

Answer 2

Small building block molecules made by living organisms that, bonded together, make proteins

Question 3

Carbohydrates

Answer 3

Molecules made by living organisms(plants) that are sugars, simple and complex

Example: pasta, rice

Question 4

Lipids

Answer 4

Molecules made by living organisms that are fats

Example: butter, copholesterol

Question 5

Soluble

Answer 5

Able to be dissolved

Question 6

Cellular Respiration

Answer 6

Process in which sugar combined with oxygen releases energy by the mitochondria in the cell

Question 7

Niche

Answer 7

A location with all of the biotic and abiotic factors needed for an organism

Question 8

Life Processes

Answer 8

All living organisms must carry on activities necessary to life

Question 9

Nutrition

Answer 9

The process of getting food or making food

Question 10

Photosynthesis

Answer 10

When green plants create there own food

Question 11

Glucose

Answer 11

A simple sugar

Question 12

Vacuole

Answer 12

An organelle in plant and fungus cells that stores nutrients

Question 13

Semi-permeable

Answer 13

Allowing only some molecules to pass through

Question 14

Osmosis

Answer 14

A process of water passing back and fourth through a cell membrane

Question 15

Sessile

Answer 15

Describes an animal that is stuck to something and can’t move

Example: barnacles, blue muscles, oysters

Question 16

Enzyme

Answer 16

A molecule that speeds up a chemical reaction

Question 17

Protoplasm

Answer 17

Living tissue

Question 18

Prokaryote

Answer 18

Primitive (not evolved yet) cells without organelles.

Ex. Bacteria

Question 19

Eukaryotes

Answer 19

Complex cells with organelles

Ex. Humans, animals, plants

Question 20

Cilia

Answer 20

Little hair like structures on the outside of cells that move materials or the cell around

Question 21

Diffusion

Answer 21

Process of materials moving in and out of the cell without using energy

Question 22

Active transport

Answer 22

Process of moving materials in and out of the cell with energy

Question 23

Homeostasis

Answer 23

The state of having everything balanced and functioning in a living organism

Question 24

DNA

Answer 24

Deoxyribonucleic acid

A molecule located in the nucleus that is the code of life, very long, stringy molecule, 46 in every human cell

Question 25

Chromosome

Answer 25

A structure built of DNA wrapped around protein molecules into tight bundles