science

• The nucleus is the control center of the cell, containing the genetic material.
• where is the mitochondria located?

  in the cytoplasm
• what is a cytoplasm?

  a watery jelly
• flat bottomed ????


  flask.
• what do you use for tests with chemicals?

  test tube.
• round bottomed ????


  flask
• what do you use to separate chemicals?

  Separating funnel.
• clamp and ???


  stand.
• what do you use to filter chemicals?

  filter funnel
• what do you use to keep chemicals?

  beaker
• bunsen ????


  burner.
• conical ????


  flask.
• what do you use to get chemicals from one flask to another?delivery tube.
• what's a hypothesis?


  an idea suggested to explain something.
• what are the characteristics of life?

  movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrition.
• what is nutrition?


  food
• what is respiration?


  respire
• what is movement?


  moving muscles
• what is sensitivity?


  detecting or sensing changes
• what is growth?


  growing up
• what is reproduction?


  making babies
• what is excretion?


  waste products being thrown out.
• how to remember the characteristics of life?

  MRSGREN
• what is a species?

  a group of living things with similar traits or characteristics
• what are characteristics of fish?

  have scales and fins, lay their eggs in water or bear live young.
• what are characteristics of amphibians?

  have smooth skin and lay their eggs in water.
• what are characteristics of reptiles?

  have scales, lay soft shelled eggs on sand.
• what are characteristics of birds?

  have feathers and lay hard shelled eggs.
• what are characteristics of mammals?

  have hair, suckle young with milk.
• what is a cell?


  a basic unit of life.
• what is a theory?

  an explanation of how something happens.
• what makes plants green?

  a chemical called chloroplasts.
• what is a vacuole?


  large place in the cytoplasm.
• what is cell sap?

  Plant cell fluid.
• what happens if the plant is short on water?

  support is lost and it wilts.
• what is adaptation in cells?

  change of an existing design for a certain task
• what are root hair cells?

  plant cells that grow a short distance behind the root tip.
• what are palisade cells?


  crucial for photosynthesis.
• where are palisade cells present?


  upper part of a leaf
• what is the shape of a red blood cell?

  biconcave disc.