Lving Things

Question 1

Plants

Answer 1

Can’t move
Make their own food
Have cell walls and chlorophyll

Question 2

Invertebrates

Answer 2

No backbone

Question 3

Vertebrate

Answer 3

Have a backbone

Question 4

Key

Answer 4

Used to identify plants and animals by using pictures or questions

Question 5

Biology

Answer 5

Is the study of living things

Question 6

Movement

Answer 6

An act of moving

Question 7

Respiration

Answer 7

The release of energy from food

Question 8

Reproduction

Answer 8

Making new individuals

Question 9

Sensitivity

Answer 9

Making new individuals

Question 10

Nutrition

Answer 10

The way an organism feeds

Question 11

Growth

Answer 11

The increase in size of an organism

Question 12

Excretion

Answer 12

The removal of waste from organisms (eg.sweat and urine)

Question 13

Eyepiece lens

Answer 13

Enlarges the image of the object

Question 14

Coarse focus knob

Answer 14

To focus the image

Question 15

Fine focus knob

Answer 15

To precisely focus the image

Question 16

Objective lens

Answer 16

Located in the nosepiece, it enlarges the image of the object

Question 17

Nosepiece

Answer 17

Rotates so that different lenses can be used

Question 18

Stage

Answer 18

The slide is placed on the stage for viewing

Question 19

Mirror/light

Answer 19

To supply light to the object

Question 20

Mandatory experiment: to prepare a slide from plant tissue and draw it as seen user a microscope.

Answer 20

Explain

Question 21

Plant cells

Answer 21

Cell wall, cell membrane, cytoplasm, nucleus, chloroplasts, vacuole

Question 22

Animal cells

Answer 22

Cell membrane, nucleus, cytoplasm

Question 23

Cell membrane

Answer 23

Forms the outer boundary of the cell

Function: Controls what passes in and out of the cell

Question 24

Cytoplasm

Answer 24

90% water and forms a jelly like substance in the cell

Function: chemical reactions in the cell take place here

Question 25

Vacuoles

Answer 25

Form storage areas in the cell

Function: vacuoles store water, salts, sugars and waste material

Question 26

Cell walls

Answer 26

Function: Protect the cell and give it shape

Question 27

Chloroplasts

Answer 27

Function: these contain the green pigment chlorophyll

Question 28

Chlorophyll

Answer 28

Coverts light energy into food.

Question 29

Large vacuoles

Answer 29

All plant cells contain these

Question 30

Animal cells

Answer 30

Egg cell (ovum)
Blood cell
Nerve cell

Question 31

Cells

Answer 31

A group of similar cells working together make a tissue eg skin tissue
Muscle tissue

Question 32

Tissue

Answer 32

A group of tissues working together make a organ eg,heart, lungs

Question 33

Organs

Answer 33

A group of organs make up a system eg. Digestive system

Question 34

Order

Answer 34

Cell-tissue- system-organ

Question 35

Growth of cells

Answer 35

Cells increase in size then divide by 2
1 cell - 2 cells
2 cells- 4 cells
4 cells- 8 cells etc

Question 36

Animals

Answer 36

Can move from place to place
Have to take in food
Do not have cell walls or chlorophyll