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27 Cards in this Set
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Which organism absorbs nutrients from other living things or from the remains of living things? |
Fungi |
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Flowering plants |
Are vascular plants, make food in their leaves, and produce seeds |
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What is a hypothesis? |
An educated guess |
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Maple trees, ferns, and mosses are similar because they are all… |
Plants |
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What does a balance measure? |
Mass |
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To live, all plants need… |
Nutrients, water, air, light |
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What plants absorb water directly like a sponge? |
Nonvascular plants |
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What do all living things need? |
Food, air, water |
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What part of the plant carries water and nutrients to the leaves? |
Stem |
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Which type of plants are divided into flowering, cone bearing, and ferns? |
Vascular |
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Where do plants store the food that they make? |
Leaves, stem, seeds |
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What do plants absorb through their root system? |
Water |
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What is the formula for photosynthesis? |
Carbon dioxide+ water yields sugar+ oxygen |
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What is the gas that plants give off during photosynthesis? |
Oxygen |
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What are the two groups in the plant kingdom? |
Vascular and nonvascular |
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What does an anemometer measure? |
Wind speed |
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Animals with a backbone are called… |
Vertebrates |
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Animals without a backbone are called… |
Invertebrates |
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Which vertebrate group has hair or fur and their babies are born alive? |
Mammals |
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What is a young frog called? |
Tadpole |
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What provides energy for photosynthesis to happen? |
Sunlight |
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Name the three main parts of a plant |
Stem, leaves, root |
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Vertebrates that have feathers wings and two legs are called… |
Birds |
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Which two vertebrate groups are warm blooded? |
Birds and mammals |
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Vertebrates that are cold blooded with dry scaly skin are called… |
Reptiles |
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The vertebrate group that spends its entire life in water is… |
Fish |
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What tool measures air pressure? |
Barometer |
