this website is designed to help you gain a better...
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This website is designed to help you gain a better understanding of biology. You need to complete the series of activities outlined below and answer any questions on this sheet. Have fun!
Go to the website: http://www.kidsbiology.com/ or if this fails to load go to www.ask.com and in the question toolbox type “kids biology” and select the 2nd website from the list generated for you. The website homepage should look like the picture below.
From the left hand side of the screen select “Biology 101”
Q1. What does the word biology mean? ________________________________________________
Click on “The origin of life”
Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the “Next” arrow
Q2. The Universe was nothing more than a very small speck of mass how long ago? ___________________. Q3. How big was the speck? ____________________ Click on the “Next” arrow (you can play the song if you want to)
Q4. If you stacked 4.6 billion pieces of paper on top of each other, how high would the pile be? ______
Q5. Complete the following sentence:
For the first __________ million years, the Earth would remain as a giant lifeless ball of fiery lava. For
another ________ million years after that, it would be too hot for liquid water to form. Finally, after
________ million years, an unimaginably long period of time, our home planet cooled enough for liquid
water to begin to form.
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Q6. What is “Primordial soup”? ______________________________________________________
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Q7. What is a cell? _______________________________________________________________
Q8. What did these first cells eat? ___________________________________________________
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Q9. As the first cells carried out the business of living, what substance did they release into the
atmosphere? ____________________________________________________________________
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Q10. How does Natural Selection determine what an animal will look like? _______________________
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Q11. How did birds develop the ability to fly? ___________________________________________
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Q12. Astronomers believe that life might be present on which of Jupiter's moons? ________________
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Click on “What are living things?”
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Q13. Extremophile microbes live deep in caves. How far under the surface can they be found? _______
Q14. How do they get energy? _______________________________________________________
Q15. All living things are made up of what? _____________________________________________ Click on the “Next” arrow
Q16. Describe how plants move ______________________________________________________
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Q17. Name 4 functions necessary for life that are carried out through chemical reactions __________
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Q18. Name one of the most important characteristics of living things__________________________ Q19. Give an example of how your own body responds to the environment in order to keep you happy ___ ______________________________________________________________________________
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Q20. What is reproduction? ________________________________________________________
Q21. How long can an elephant live for? ________________________________________________
Q22. How long can a bristle cone pine tree live for? _______________________________________
Q23. How long do bacteria usually live for? _____________________________________________
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Click on “Classification”
Q24. Scientists believe that there are over how many different kinds of life forms, or species on Earth? ________________________________________________________________________
Activity: Copy the diagram of the classification system.
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Q25. What do you call scientists who classify living things?
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Q26. What are the 5 Kingdoms that biologists have developed?
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Q27. Animals with a backbone belong to which order? _____________________________________ Click on “Next” arrow
Q28. What are the 5 classes in the Animal Kingdom? ______________________________________
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Click on “5 Kingdoms”
Q29. How long ago was the first classification system developed? ___________________________
Q30. Who developed this system? __________________________________________________
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Q31. The Moneran Kingdom consists of what? ________________________________________
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Q32. The Protista Kingdom consists of what? __________________________________________
Q33. What is the main difference between protists and monerans? ___________________________
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Q34. Name one common type of fungus ________________________________________________
Q35. How do fungi make their own food? ______________________________________________
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Q36. How do plants get their green colour? ____________________________________________
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Click on “Cells, Tissues and Organs”
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Q37. What is a tissue? ___________________________________________________________
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Q38. What was the name of the scientist who first discovered the existence of cells? _____________
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Q39. What is “Cell Theory” _________________________________________________________
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Q40. How big are cells? ___________________________________________________________
Q41. What do organelles do? ________________________________________________________
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Q42. What does the cell wall do? ____________________________________________________
Q43. What would happen if the cells in your body had cell walls? _____________________________
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Q44. The cell membranes found in animal cells contain a chemical called? ______________________
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Q45. What is the name of the jelly that fills the inside of a cell called? _______________________
Q46. What does it do? ____________________________________________________________
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Q47. What does the endoplasmic reticulum do? ________________________________________
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Q48. What do ribosomes do? _______________________________________________________
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Q49. What do lysosomes do? _______________________________________________________
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Q50. The organelle responsible for energy production inside a cell is called? ___________________
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Q51. What is the Golgi Apparatus responsible for? ______________________________________
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Q52. What are vacuoles? _________________________________________________________
Q53. What is chlorophyll used for? __________________________________________________
Scroll down and click on the “Next” arrow ( You can use the diagram on this page to help you complete the selected pages in your Biology lab book)
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Continue to briefly scroll through the pages until you get to the webpage titled “Cell Specialization”
Q54. Do the cells of a multi-cellular life form have the ability to live on their own? _______________
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Complete the following sentence:
Blood itself is a ____________ tissue that transports _____________, food and ____________ throughout the body.
Q55. The heart is an organ made up of which 3 tissue types? ________________________________
Q56. Name 3 common plant organs __________________________________________________
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Q57. What is an organism? _________________________________________________________
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From the menu page select the option “Learn about Viruses”
Q58. What is a virus? _____________________________________________________________
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Q59. Is a virus a living thing? Explain your answer. _______________________________________
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Q60. How does DNA help a virus to take control of a cell? __________________________________
Q61. Name 2 effects a virus can have _________________________________________________
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From the main menu select the option “Learn about Genetics”
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Q62. When did Gregor Mendel first start experimenting with peas? _________________________
Q63. What is cross pollination? _____________________________________________________
Scroll down and click on the “Next” arrow 3 times until you come to the following sentence:
Mendel discovered that some ____________ are ___________, or stronger then other genes. When
there are two different kinds of genes (a tall, and a short) the ____________ gene will determine how
the plant will grow.
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Q65. If you mix a dominant red (RR) flower with a dominant white (WW) flower, what will the offspring's gene pair look like? Draw a punnet square to represent this.
Q66. What will the colour of the flower be? ____________________
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When you get back to the main menu select the option from the left hand side of the page “Biology games” – you can play some games.
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