Maintaining Life CH4 (DIRT)

Question 1

What is Photosynthesis?

Answer 1

The process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize nutrients from carbon dioxide and water

Question 2

What is a Chloroplast?

Answer 2

A plastid in plant cells that produces chlorrophyll

Question 3

What is Chlorophyll?

Answer 3

A green pigment in all green plants which absorbs light to photosynthesise

Question 4

What is a Phylum Vessel?

Answer 4

The part of a plant that distributes food from leaf to other parts on the plant

Question 5

What is a Xylem Vessel?

Answer 5

The part which carries minerals and water from the root to the leaf

Question 6

What is a Levcoplast?

Answer 6

The part of the plant where protein and glucose is stored.

Question 7

What is a root?

Answer 7

The part of a plant that is under the soil and absorbs water and minerals

Question 8

How does the structure of the root help to carry out its function?

Answer 8

The root provides a large surface area to absorb water and minerals

Question 9

What is Transpiration?

Answer 9

The process that involves the loss of water vapor from the leaves

Question 10

What is Excretion?

Answer 10

Getting rid of the waste material that has been part of the body

Question 11

For reasons why plants need water?

Answer 11

Photosynthesis, Cooling the plant, Supporting the plant, and Transporting minerals and other things in the plant.

Question 12

What is the urea formed from?

Answer 12

Urea is formed from the protein

Question 13

Where is the urea made?

Answer 13

The Urea is made in the liver

Question 14

where is urea removed from in the body?

Answer 14

The blood is brought into the kidney and the kidney filters all the Urea out

Question 15

Why is urea removed from the body?

Answer 15

Urea is removed from the kidney because it is a poisonous substance.

Question 16

What is Urine

Answer 16

Urine is a solution of excess water (that is also removed in the kidney) and urea

Question 17

What is Urea made of?

Answer 17

Urea is made of Protein that has been broken down to smaller molecules

Question 18

What is the tube called that urine flows down through?

Answer 18

The tube that urine flows through is called Ureter

Question 19

What do you call the thing in your body that can store urine?

Answer 19

The thing in your body that can store urine is called the Bladder

Question 20

What do you call the place where the urine flows out of the bladder?

Answer 20

The place were urine flows outside the bladder is called Urethra