Unit 2, Part 1

Question 1

Organism

Answer 1

Any living thing

Question 2

Cell

Answer 2

The smallest unit that can perform all life processes

Question 3

All organisms are made out of _____

Answer 3

Cells

Question 4

All organisms have a _______ ________

Answer 4

Life Span

Question 5

What are the 9 different life processes of an organism? (Hint: MRS GREN MA)

Answer 5

1) Movement
2) Reproduction
3) Sensitivity to Stimuli
4) Growth and Development
5) (Cellular) Respiration
6) Excretion
7) Nutrition
8) Maintaining Homeostasis
9) Adaptation

Question 6

What is reproduction?
What is asexual reproduction?
What is sexual reproduction?

Answer 6

1) The creation of offspring
2) One parent that makes identical offspring
3) Two parents making similar offspring - shared characteristics from both parents

Question 7

Parents pass on their _____ to their offspring. This is called ________. Genes are made up of ___.

Answer 7

Genes, Heredity, DNA

Question 8

What is maintaining homeostasis?
What are some examples of how humans do this?

Answer 8

1) When you keep a stable internal environment
2) Shivering when cold, sweating when hot

Question 9

What is adaptation?
What are some examples of adaptations?

Answer 9

1) When an organism becomes better suited for the environment.
2) Camouflage, venom, webbed feet, fangs

Question 10

What does being able to respond to stimuli mean?
What is a stimulus?
What are some examples of a human responding to stimuli?

Answer 10

1) It means that you have the ability to sense and react to change
2) Anything that causes a reaction
3) Pupils constricting due to the sunlight, loud bang that causes you to jump

Question 11

What is growth?
What is development?

Answer 11

1) Increase in height or weight
2) Maturation - changing from child to adult

Question 12

True or False?

Growth and Development can only occur in humans.

Answer 12

False

Question 13

What is nutrition?
How is metabolism related to it?

Answer 13

1) The process of consuming nutrients for good health
2) Metabolism is the rate at which you process foods to create energy (how fast you consume the nutrients)

Question 14

What is cellular respiration?

Answer 14

1) The process by which the body uses glucose (food) to release stored energy.

Explanation: Cellular respiration is the body’s way of breaking down glucose (sugar) to release the energy that’s stored in it for the cells to use.

Question 15

What is excretion?
What are some examples of this?

Answer 15

1) Getting rid of waste
2) Sweat, urine, feces, saliva

Question 16

All or part of the organism ______ at some point in time

Answer 16

Moves

Question 17

Organisms are made up of about ___ water

Answer 17

70%

Question 18

Most ____ ________ in our body require _____

Answer 18

Life processes, water

Question 19

Oxygen is needed for the process of __________ ____________

Answer 19

Cellular Respiration

Question 20

All energy comes from the ____
____________ trap light energy and make food through the process of _________________
____________ then eat the _____________ and other ____________

Answer 20

Sun, Producers, Photosynthesis, Consumers, Producers, Consumers

Question 21

Herbivores consume only ________
They have ____ _______ to help them eat their food.
List examples of two.

Answer 21

1) plants
2) flat molars
3) cow, deer, rabbit

Question 22

Herbivores are a type of ________

Answer 22

Consumer

Question 23

Carnivores consume only ____
They have _____ ______ teeth to help them eat
Name 2 examples of them.

Answer 23

1) meat
2) pointy, sharp
3) tiger, lion

Question 24

Omnivores consume ____ ______ & ____
Their teeth are a mix of ______ / ____ molar
List 2 examples of them

Answer 24

1) both plants and meat
2) pointy / flat
3) humans, some bears

Question 25

To get nutrients, what do scavengers do?
What are 2 examples of them?

Answer 25

1) Scavengers consume remains of dead organisms
2) Vulture, hyena

Question 26

What are decomposers?
What are 2 examples of them?

Answer 26

1) Decomposers are organisms that break down dead organisms to recycle nutrients.
2) Mushrooms, bacteria, some worms

Question 27

True or False?
Decomposers are microorganisms that break down dead organisms through chemical processes.

Answer 27

True