science study guide 1

Question 1

What is a proposed solution to a scientific question?

Answer 1

Hypothesis

Question 2

What process do scientists use to discover the natural world?

Answer 2

Science

Question 3

What is the science that seeks to understand the living world?

Answer 3

Biology

Question 4

Who uses the scientific method to study the living world?

Answer 4

Biologists

Question 5

What is the smallest unit that can perform the basic activities of life?

Answer 5

Cell

Question 6

Birds flying south for the winter would be a example of this characteristic of living things?

Answer 6

Responding to the environment

Question 7

Which characteristic of living things is important for the survival of living things as a whole?

Answer 7

Reproduction

Question 8

What process do organisms use to keep their internal conditions stable?

Answer 8

Development

Question 9

What is the name given to the chemical reactions through which an organism builds up or breaks down materials as it carries out life processes?

Answer 9

Metabolism

Question 10

Over a year,Julie´s height increased two inches.Which characteristics of living things would this represent?

Answer 10

Growth and Development

Question 11

What is the science of identifying,classsifying,and naming organisms?

Answer 11

Taxonomy

Question 12

What is the largest level of organization?

Answer 12

Kingdom

Question 13

What is the smallest level of organization?

Answer 13

Species

Question 14

Who discovered cells?

Answer 14

Robert Hooke or hooke

Question 15

Give an example of a unicellular organism.

Answer 15

Germs/Bacteria

Question 16

What is the name given to cells that have a nucleus?

Answer 16

Ukaroe

Question 17

What is the protective covering that lies just outside the cell membrane?

Answer 17

Cell wall

Question 18

Organelle in the plant cell that uses the energy from sunlight to make sugar of energy for the cell?

Answer 18

Chloroplast

Question 19

This organelle contains enzymes that digest foregin materials inside of the cell?

Answer 19

Lysosome

Question 20

This organelle stores materials such as water,salts,and minerals?

Answer 20

Vacuole

Question 21

Which organelles takes energy from glucose (food) and changes it into energy for the cell?

Answer 21

Mitochondria

Question 22

Which organelle regulates what enters and leaves the cell?

Answer 22

Cell membrane

Question 23

Which organelle transports materials inside the cell?

Answer 23

ER or Endoplasmic Reticulum

Question 24

Which cellular structure makes proteins?

Answer 24

Ribosomes

Question 25

What is found in the plant cell,but not the animal cell?

Answer 25

Cell wall and Chloroplast