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Science Chapter 1 Study Guide
Lesson 1
1.
What does it mean to classify living things?
2.
Why do scientists classify living things?
3.
What are the five main groups that scientist use to classify living organisms?
4.
Why are fungi classified in a separate kingdom?
5.
What is similar about the organisms that belong to the bacteria and the protest kingdoms?
6.
What functions must a cell be able to carry out? Why?
7.
What part of the cell allows materials to enter and leave the cell?
8.
What types of materials does think the cell membrane allows into the cell?
9.
How is the cell membrane of the animal cell similar to your skin?
10.
What helps keep the cell parts in place?
11.
What part of the cell can be compared to your brain? Why?
12.
How do the outermost parts of the plant cell and the animal cell differ?
13.
What is the purpose of the cell wall? Why is it thick?
14.
Why are all chloroplasts important to a plant?
15.
What four parts do animal cells have that plant cells also have?
16.
Why do you think animal cells are different from plant cells?
17.
What cell structure would you expect to find in one-celled organisms?
18.
What life processes do one-celled organisms carry out?
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In what ways are one-celled organisms like plants?
20.
What features can you identify inside the amoeba?
21.
Why is it difficult to see one-celled organisms with just your eyes?
22.
Do all bacteria look alike? Explain.
23.
What are the shapes of bacteria? Explain.
24.
How are cyanobacteria similar to plants?
25.
In what ways are protists like animals?
26.
In what ways are protists like plants?
Lesson 2
1.
What are the three systems that make up vascular plants?
2.
How does water travel through the roots and stems to the leaves?
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Besides water, what other materials travel through the tubes of the plants?
4.
What are the small structures you see in the cross section of the leaf that responsible for
making food for the plants?
5.
What is the main function of roots?
6.
What is the main function of the leaves?
7.
What is the main function of the stem?
8.
What are two main characteristics of nonvascular plants?
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How do nonvascular plants get their water?
10.
How does water get to the parts of a nonvascular plant?
11.
What is the main difference between vascular and nonvascular plants?
12.
In what other ways do nonvascular plants differ from vascular plants?
13.
How are mosses, liverworts, and hornworts similar? How are they different?
14.
What is the main difference between fungi and plants?
15.
How do fungi get nutrients?
Lesson 3
1.
What are some of the needs that are met by the system of animals’ bodies?
2.
Why is a kangaroo classified as a mammal?
3.
Why isn’t a goldfish classified as an amphibian?
4.
Why isn’t a bat classified as a bird?
5.
What is the main difference between reptiles and amphibians?
6.
How do you thing scientists go about classifying animals into groups?
7.
Why do you think jellyfish live in the ocean?
8.
How does the body of the worm differ from that of a mollusk?
9.
Why is the sea anemone considered an invertebrate?
10.
How is the sea anemone similar to the jellyfish?
11.
What is similar about a crab and a grasshopper?
12.
Why is a grasshopper classified as an insect?
13.
Why are the tarantula and other spiders not classified as insects?
14.
How many body parts does and insect have? What are they?
15.
What part contains the insect’s body systems?
16.
How does and insect’s exoskeleton help it live on land?