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The skeletal system allows is to move, what other role does the skeletal system play?
a) protection
b) energy
c) produces oxygen
d) helps us grow tall

Define temperature.
a) hot and cold
b) what you have when you are sick
c) how it feels when you are outside
d) the measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles of a substance

What are the levels of organization in the human body?
a) organ system, cells, multicellular, tissues
b) cells-tissue-organ system-organ
c) cells-tissue-organ-organ system
d) tissue-organ-cell-organ system

Gas exchange takes place between the ___________and the___________in our lungs.
a) high heat and low heat
b) capillaries and alveoli
c) veins and heart
d) small intestines and large intestines

Which main system controls movement in our bodies (what tells our muscles to move)?
a) skeletal
b) muscular
c) nervous system
d) digestive

What is a diaphragm and what is its role in our bodies?
a) a drawing that explains how we breathe
b) the muscle beneath your lungs that helps move air into and out of your body
c) the part of the digestive system that absorbs nutrients from the small intestine
d) the villa that are fingerlike things that are tied to the blood stream

What is the role of the peripheral nervous system?
a) to help us see what is going on around us without having to move our head
b) to tell us what to do
c) to deliver messages to our receptors
d) to carry out messages between the central nervous system and the rest of the body

What two body systems work together to allow us to move?
a) circulatory and nervous
b) muscular and circulatory
c) muscular and skeletal
d) skeletal and circulatory

What is chemical digestion? What is mechanical digestion?
a) chemical: mixing oil and water mechanical: physically stirring your food
b) chemical: drinking water after you eat mechanical: using machines
c) chemical: mixing two different colors of paint mechanical: using a paintbrush to paint a picture
d) chemical: is mixing chemicals with food and mechanical: the physical aspect of processing food into smaller pieces

Are plants multicellular or single cellular?
a) multicellular
b) unicellular
c) muscular
d) vascular

Define excretion
a) the removal of waste from the body
b) to move blood throughout the body
c) to put fluid in the body
d) breathing

What organelle is responsible for storage and support?
a) Rough and Smooth ER
b) Golgi Apparatus
c) Mitochondria
d) vacuole

What is the role of the cell membrane?
a) to protect the cell
b) to hold everything together
c) It is the outer covering of the cell, allows material to enter and exit the cell.
d) it is the brains of the cell

What is a prokaryotic cell? List some examples of prokaryotic cells.
a) a single cell: a person
b) a single cell: bacteria
c) many cells: bacteria
d) many cells: a person

What is the job of the nucleus?
a) the eye of the cell
b) the control center of the cell
c) to transport material through the golgi
d) to make protein

What are the two structure a plant cell has that an animal cell does not?
a) Cell wall and chloroplast
b) DNA and mitochondria
c) vacuoles and cell membrane
d) ER and Golgi

If your teacher gives you 4 beakers of cloudy water and asks you which sample has living organisms in it. What investigation would you need to do to determine which sample has living organisms?
a) A telescope
b) a magnifying glass
c) the naked eye
d) You would need a microscope so that you can get a closer look at the samples to see if they meet all the characteristics.

What are the seven characteristics of life
a) height, weight, where they live, what they eat, what type of skeleton they have, sensitivity to light
b) multicellular, unicellular, eukaryotic, prokaryotic, amoeba, human, and specialized sturcture
c) order, sensitivity or response to the environment, reproduction, growth and development, regulation, homeostasis, and energy
d) cells, tissues, organs, organ system, circulatory, digestive, and respiratory

All living things are made of?
a) Blood
b) Cells
c) Air
d) Tissues

All living organisms are composed of one or more cells. Cell is the basic structural and functional unit of living organisms. All cells arise from pre-existing cells.
a) principals of the cell theory
b) characteristics of life
c) basic unit of life
d) organization of the life cycle

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