Ch.2 Living Things And Cells

Question 1

BIOLOGY

Answer 1

Is the study of living things.

Question 2

ORGANISM

Answer 2

Living things

Question 3

MRSFERG

Answer 3

M - movement
R - respiration
S - sensitivity
F - feeding
E - Excretion
R - reproduction
G - growth

Question 4

MOVEMENT

Answer 4

Animals can move from place to place.
Plants do not move from place to place, the move when they grow or when a flower closes or opens its petals.

Question 5

RESPIRATION

Answer 5

It’s the way living things get energy. They take oxygen and mix it with food to get energy.

Question 6

SENSITIVITY

Answer 6

It’s the ability to react to changes in the environment. Animals will run away from danger, a plant will grow towards light.

Question 7

FEEDING

Answer 7

Animals do not make their own food, they get food from eating plants and other animals.
Plants make their own food.

Question 8

PHOTOSYNTHESIS

Answer 8

This is the word for how plants make food. They need a greed dye called chlorophyll. This is why plants are green.

Question 9

EXCRETION

Answer 9

Is the removal of waste made in the body, from the body. Animals excrete carbon dioxide, water, urea and salts.

Question 10

REPRODUCTION

Answer 10

Is being able to make new individuals of the same kind.

Question 11

GROWTH

Answer 11

Results from cell division.

Question 12

Cell membrane -

Answer 12

Very thin layer that surrounds the cell. Holds cell contents in place and controls what passes into and out of the cell.

Question 13

Nucleus -

Answer 13

Is normally round. It acts as the control centre of the cell. It has DNA.

Question 14

Cytoplasm -

Answer 14

The watery liquid found between the nucleus and the cell membrane.

Question 15

Mitochondria -
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Answer 15

Supply energy to the cell.

Question 16

Cell wall -

Answer 16

Found outside of the cell membrane of a plant cell. Gives strength to the cell.

Question 17

Vacuole -

Answer 17

Containing water, sugar and wastes - gives strength to the cell.

Question 18

Chloroplasts -

Answer 18

Contain chlorophyll to help make food using sunlight (photosynthesis).

Question 19

Invertebrate -

Answer 19

Animals that do not have a backbone.

Question 20

Vertebrate -

Answer 20

Animals that have a backbone.