WorksheetsLife Science Vocabulary
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 13mins
What is a green pigment found in the chloroplasts of plants, algae, and some bacteria?
Chloroplasts
Nature
Chlorophyll
Producer
What is Stimulus?
A change in an organism's surroundings that causes the organism to react.
An action or a change in behavior that occurs as a result of stimulus.
An organism that can make its own food.
Scared prey running to a safe place.
What is the movement of Materials through a cell membrane using cellular energy?
Mitosis
Osmosis
Meiosis
Active Transport
What is the genetic material that carries information about an organism and is passed from parents to offspring?
Deoxyirbonucleic Acid (DNA)
Ribonucleic Acid (RNA)
Transcription
Translation
What is the process that occurs in the formation of sex cells (sperm and egg) by which the number of chromosomes are reduced by half?
Osmosis
Mitosis
Meiosis
Heredity
What is the diffusion of water molecules through a selectively permeable membrane that is your skin?
Osmosis
Mitosis
Meiosis
Diffusion
The stage of the cell cycle during which the cell's nucleus divides into two new nuclei and one copy of the DNA is distributed into each daughter cell?
Osmosis
Meiosis
Mitosis
Diffusion
What is an action or a change in behavior that occurs as a result of stimulus?
Stimulus
Active Transport
Diffusion
Response
What is an animal whose body regulates its own temperature by controlling the internal heat it produces?
Endotherm
Chordate
Exotherm
Symbios
A close relationship between two organisms in which at least one of the organisms benefits?
Incomplete Metamorphisis
Complete Metamorphisis
Chordate
Symbios
What is an animal whose body does not produce much internal heat?
Homeostasis
Chordate
Endotherm
Exotherm
What are plant cell structures in which photosynthesis occurs?
Chlorophyll
Producer/ Autotroph
Consumer/ Heterotroph
Chloroplasts
What is a change in body form characterized by 4 dramatically different stages?
Incomplete Metamorphisis
Complete Metamorphisis
Genotype
Phenotype
What is the change in body form consisting of the egg, nymph, and adult stages?
Complete Metamorphisis
Incomplete Metamorphisis
Heredity
Response
What is the phylum whose members have a notochord, a nerve chord, and slits in their throat area at some point in their life?
Symbios
Endotherm
Exotherm
Chordate
What is an organism's physical appearance, or visible traits?
Genotype
Symbios
Heredity
Phenotype
What is the scientific study of how living things are classified?
Genotype
Translation
Taxonomy
Transcription
What is an organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms?
Producer/ AUtotroph
Consumer/ Heterotroph
Homeostasis
Diffusion
What is the process by which the genetic code in DNA is transcribed onto a strand of mRNA?
Translation
Transcription
Ribonucleic Acid (RNA)
Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA)
What is the passing of traits from parents to offspring?
Heredity
Translation
Meiosis
Symbiosis
What is an organisms genetic makeup, or allele combinations?
Phenotype
Genotype
Symbiosis
Chordate
What is the process by which a protein chain is created from information contained with RNA?
Transcription
Phenotype
Translation
Genotype
What is a nucleic acid that plays an important role in the production of proteins?
Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA)
Transcription
Ribonucleic Acid (RNA)
Translation
What is the process by which molecules move from an area from higher concentration to an area of lower concentration?
Response
Stimulus
Diffusion
Complete Metamorphisis
What is the maintenance of stable internal conditions regardless of external conditions?
Endotherm
Homeostasis
Exotherm
Symbiosis
What is an organism that can make its own food?
Consumer/ Heterotroph
Producer/ Autotroph
Stimulus
Response
