Science Chapter 1 - Living Things

What is an organism?

• a living thing

• a dead thing

Choose the 4 out of 5 of the main groups to classify living things

• animals

• humans

• plants

• fungi

• bacteria

What does microscopic mean?

• a tool to use to look at small things

• very big

• cannot see with the eye alone

What does the nucleus do?

• outer layer of an animal cell

• powerhouse of the cell

• where food is made

• controls the cell, "brain" of the cell

What is the function of a mitochondria?

• powerhouse of the cell, releases energy

• allows material to leave and enter cell

• where food is made

• big sac that stores food, water and waste

What is the function of the vacuole?

• where food is made

• big sac that stores food, water, and waste

• outer layer of plant cell

• moves protein through the cell

Choose the two groups of the plant kingdom.

• vascular

• nonvascular

• roots

• stems

Vascular means

• a living thing

• having a stem

• not having tubes

• having tubes

A vascular plant is made up of ... (choose all that apply)

• roots

• leaves

• stems

• oil

Chloroplasts contain ________ in a plant cell.

• oxygen

• chlorophyll

• seeds

• plants