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What are the ?5 characteristics of all living things?

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-Energy-Environment-Reproduction-Growth-Waste

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Major organs are made from what?

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tissue

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What is the basic unit of every system?

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Cell

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What is the smallest thing scientists consider to be alive?

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Cell

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In a pant, it is the responsibility of what system to help make food for the plant?

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the shoot system (stems and leaves)

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A Dutch merchant named________________ made instruments called microscopes.

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Anton vee Leeuwenhoek

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What did Anton vee Leeuwenhoek call unicellular organisms?

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Animalcules

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What are the 2 points of the cell theory that was brought about by Schleiden and Schwann and Rudolf Virchow?

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  1. All living things are composed of one or more cell2. Cells are the basic units of structure and function in all organisms
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What should you never use on medium or high power of a microscope?

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Coarse Adjustment Knob

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What holds the eyepiece and objective lenses at proper working distance from each other?

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The tube

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What is another name for the eyepiece?

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Ocular lens

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The holes on the _____ _____ you turn are called the _______ and they help control the amount of light that reaches the slide.

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condenser lensdiaphragm

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What are the two structure that a plant cell does have but an animal cell does not?

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cell wallchloroplasts/chlorophyll

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What are the different structures of a cell called?

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organelles

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What are the storage places for food, waste and other substance a plant doesn’t use right away called?

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Vacuoles

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The structures in which photosynthesis takes place are called ___________.

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Chloroplasts

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What is the diffusion of water through a semi-permeable membrane?

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Osmosis

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What is it called when a cell membrane only lets certain things through?

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Semi-Permeable

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Water moves from areas of _____ to _____.

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HighLow

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What are the tissues inside a plant that transport materials, and connect the roots to the leaves?

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Vascular tissues

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What are the tissues called that transport sugars?

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Phloem Tissues

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What are the tissues that transport water, nutrients, and minerals?

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Xylem Tissues

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What is transpiration?

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When a plant ‘sweats’

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Where does transpiration in plants occur?

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under the leaves through the stomata

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What can affect the rate of transpiration in a plant?
Drought
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What are the three advantages of multicellular organisms over unicellular organisms.
1. More complex (Larger/Specialized)2. Live in many different environments3. Can eat a variety of different foods
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Cells with the same structure and function are called _______.
Tissue
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Groups of different tissues form ________.
Organs
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Organs work together in _______.
Systems
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Systems work together to form an ____________.
Organism
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What is the tissues that protects the outside of a plant?
Epidermal tissue
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What is the tissue that protects the outside of our bodies?
Epithelial tissue
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What are the 3 systems in a plant?
1. Root System2. Shoot System3. Reproductive System
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What are the parts in the root system?
-roots-root hairs
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What are the parts in the shoot system?
-stems-leaves
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What are the parts in the reproductive system?
-flowers-fruit-seeds
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What are the 2 functions of the root system?
-obtain water and minerals from the soil-anchor the plant in the ground
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What is the function of the shoot system?
To make food for the plant (photosynthesis)
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What are the 5 major systems in the human body?
DigestiveRespiratoryCirculatoryNervousExcretory
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What does the Digestive system do?
Breaks down food, absorbs food particles, and eliminates waste.
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What does the Respiratory system do?
Exchanges oxygen and carbon dioxide
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What does the circulatory system do?
Circulates blood, transports food particles, dissolved gases and other materials
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What does the Nervous system do?
Controls and coordinates body activities, senses internal and external changes
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What doe the Excretory system do?
Regulates blood composition and excretes waste fluids
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What are the parts of the Digestive system?
esophagus, stomach, intestines
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What are the parts of the respiratory system?
Trachea (windpipe), lungs, bronchioles, bronchus, alveoli
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What are the parts of the circulatory system?
Heart, arteries, veins, capillaries
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How does oxygen and carbon dioxide pass between the respiratory and circulatory system?
Oxygen goes in the nose/mouth, down the trachea, into the lungs, to the bronchus, bronchioles, and alveoli, the alveoli are covered in capillaries; the capillaries absorb the oxygen and take it to the heart.
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Where does the transfer of food from the digestive system to the circulatory system take place?
In the small intestine. Villi lining the intestine walls are surrounded in capillaries; the capillaries absorb the nutrients.
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What are the two ways our body tries to cool us down?
-sweating-turning red (blood vessels expand so they are close to the skin to give off heat)
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Your body's response to certain stimuli are coordinated by what system?
The nervous system
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What are the major components of blood?
PlasmaRed blood cellsWhite blood cellsPlatelets
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What is plasma?
carries nutrients, waste, hormones, and blood cells
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What are red blood cells?
carries oxygen
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What are white blood cells?
defends body against infection and disease
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What are platelets?
causes blood to clot
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What is a manipulated variable?
something that is changing
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What is a responding variable?
the thing you are observing
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what is a controlled variable?
what you kept the same

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