1. Unit 1 SternGRR & Science as a Inquiry
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Unit 1 SternGRR & Science as a Inquiry

2. 1) What life process is represented by the arrows followed by the terms CO2 and Nitrogenous wastes?

3. Excretion

4. 2) What life process uses O2 and gives off CO2?

5. Respiration

6. 3) How might a single-celled organism use organic compounds?

7. Nutrition

8. 4) Dandilion seeds are dispersed by the wind and each can produce a new plant.

9. Reproduction

10. 5) Normally, when the concentration of glucose in the blood falls below a certain level, stored glucose reenters the blood until the original concentration is reached again. What does this process illustrate?
A. synthesis C. pinocytosis
B. respiration D. homeostasis

11. homeostasis

12. 6) Which statement concerning gas transport in humans is correct?
Carbon dioxide is transported to body cells by lymphocytes.
Carbon dioxide is transported to body cells in the form of lactic acid.
Oxygen is transported to body cells in the form of oxyhemoglobin.
Oxygen is transported to body cells by lymph vessels.

13. Oxygen is transported to body cells in the form of oxyhemoglobin.

14. 7) Which activity is a function of all living cells?
A. synthesis C. anaerobic respiration
B. locomotion D. extra-cellular digestion

15. Synthesis

16. 8) Which of the following best describes how respiration is accomplished?
necessary nutrients are circulated
hydrogen is used to synthesize glucose
metabolic wastes are absorbed
chemical energy is converted into a form usable by cells

17. Chemical energy is converted into a form usable by cells

18. They remove cellular wastes.
9)Which of the following best describes how organisms carry out nutrition?
They remove cellular wastes.
They obtain and process materials needed for other activities.
They exchange gases with their environment.
They absorb and circulate materials.

19. They obtain and process materials needed for other activities

20. 10) Which life process is indicated by the arrows in the diagram of an ameba shown below?
A. digestion C. fermentation
B. excretion D. transport

21. D. transport

22. 11) Which substances are metabolic waste products?
A. carbon dioxide, water, urea C. carbon dioxide, water, sugar
B. glucose, water, oxygen D. oxygen, water, protein

23. A. carbon dioxide, water, urea

24. 12)The leaves in plants are used to capture sunlight to accomplish which life function?
Transport C. Nutrition
Synthesis D. Reproduction

25. Synthesis

26. 13) Which life function is primarily involved in converting energy stored in organic molecules into a form directly useable by an organism?
Absorption C. Regulation
Synthesis D. Respiration

27. Respiration

28. 14)Lungs in mammals and diffusion in worms are used for which of the following life processes?
Transport C. Regulation
Excretion D. Respiration

29. Respiration

30. 15) Eliminating carbon dioxide and nitrogenous waste from an organism is best illustrated by which life function?
(a) regulation (b) nutrition (c) respiration (d) excretion

31. Excretion

32. 16) The smallest unit of life capable of carrying out all the functions of living things is a(n):
Population
Tissue
Cell
Organ

33. Cell

34. 17) Which term refers to the maintenance of a stable internal environment in an organism?
(a) respiration
(b) synthesis
(c) metabolism
(d) homeostasis

35. homeostasis

36. 18) Yeast cells divide, producing more new yeast cells.

37. Reproduction

38. 19) When examining a leaf under a microscope, one sees that is it composed of many units similar to the units that make up other living things.

39. Cells

40. 21) All giraffe’s necks are longer today, than when giraffes first evolved because having longer necks has allowed to them reach leaves on trees that other animals cannot reach to eat.

41. Adaptation

42. 22) What is the independent variable?
Month
# of deer
Sept 38
Oct 32
Nov 26
Dec 20
Jan 15
Feb 12
22) What is the independent variable?
23) What is the dependent variable?

43. independent variable= Month
dependent variable= Deer

44. 24) What is the independent variable?
# of Bacteria
# of Days 4 1 16 2 40 3 80
100 5
200 6
24) What is the independent variable?
25) What is the dependent variable?

45. independent variable= # days
dependent variable= #bacteria

46. 26) List the levels of organization (least to more complex)

47. atoms, molecules, organelles, cells, tissues, organ,
organs system, organism

48. 27) List the steps of the Scientific Method Process in Order

50. 28) To get bigger or to change in function or structure.

51. Growth & Development

52. 29) The sum of all chemical processes occurring in an
organism (breaking down & building up).

53. Metabolism

54. 30)To get rid of wastes an organism does not need.

55. Excretion

56. 31) A reaction to a stimulus.

57. Response

58. 32) To move materials around inside an organism..

59. Transport

60. 33) To exchange gas AND To produce energy (ATP) for cells

61. Respiration

62. 34) The factor the scientist changes on purpose from group to group.

63. Independent Variabe

64. 35) Any inherited structure, behavior, or internal
process that helps an organism respond to environmental
factors and live to produce offspring.

65. Adaptation