final sciene

Question 1

waves of contractions that move food though the digestive tract

Answer 1

peristalsis

Question 2

thick hard outer covering of an animal’s body that helps to support and protect it

Answer 2

exoskeleton

Question 3

the process of physically breaking food into smaller pieces.

Answer 3

Mechanical digestion

Question 4

an involuntary muscle named for its smooth appearance.

Answer 4

Smooth muscle

Question 5

long chain of amino acid molecules that contain carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen and sometimes sulfur.

Answer 5

Protein

Question 6

group of tissues working together to perform a particular job.

Answer 6

organ

Question 7

the part of an organism that gathers, processes and responds to information.

Answer 7

Nervous System

Question 8

an organism’s ability to maintain steady internal conditions.

Answer 8

Homeostasis

Question 9

a membrane bound organelle that uses light energy and makes food, a sugar called glucose from water and carbon dioxide

Answer 9

Chloroplast

Question 10

states that all living things are made of one or more cells. The cell is the smallest unit of life. New cells come from preexisting cells.

Answer 10

Cell Theory

Question 11

type of reproduction in which only one parent organism or part of that organism produces offspring

Answer 11

Asexual Reproduction

Question 12

genetic factor that blocks another genetic factor.

Answer 12

Dominant gene

Question 13

section of a DNA chromosome that has genetic information for one trait.

Answer 13

Gene

Question 14

the passing of traits from parents to offspring

Answer 14

heredity

Question 15

a process that occurs when pollen grains land on a female reproductive structure of a plant that is the same species as the pollen grain

Answer 15

Pollination

Question 16

the transfer of material from one material to another by electromagnetic waves.

Answer 16

radiation

Question 17

water in liquid or solid form that falls from the atmosphere.

Answer 17

Precipitation

Question 18

blocked by the presence of a dominant
factor.

Answer 18

Recessive genetic factor

Question 19

the type of reproduction where genetic
material from two different cells combine to produce offspring.

Answer 19

Sexual Reproduction

Question 20

the study of how traits are passed from parent to offspring.

Answer 20

Genetics

Question 21

type of reproduction that occurs when an offspring grows from a piece of its parent

Answer 21

Regeneration

Question 22

the growth of a plant toward or away from the light.

Answer 22

Phototropism

Question 23

refers to the long term average weather conditions that occur in a particular region.

Answer 23

Climate

Question 24

the process by which a gas changes into a
liquid.

Answer 24

Condensation

Question 25

the transfer of thermal energy by collisions between particles of matter.

Answer 25

Conduction

Question 26

the transfer of thermal energy energy by the movement of particles from one part of a material to another.

Answer 26

Convection

Question 27

the process of liquid changing into a gas at the surface of a liquid.

Answer 27

Evaporation

Question 28

transfer of thermal energy from a region of higher temperature to a region of lower temperature

Answer 28

Heat

Question 29

moving energy

Answer 29

Kinetic Energy

Question 30

stored energy

Answer 30

Potential energy