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Mnemonic for classification - ✔✔King Philip Came Over From Germany Soaked
3 unicellular kingdoms - ✔✔archaebacteria, eubacteria, Protista
3 multicellular kingdoms - ✔✔fungi, plantae, animalia
Unicellular kingdom that has nucleus and organelles - ✔✔Protista
10 animal phyla - ✔✔porifera, cnidaria, platyhelminthes, nematoda, rotifera, annelida,
mollusca, arthropoda, echinodermata, chordate
3 muscle types - ✔✔cardiac, skeletal, smooth
Organ that regulates excretion - ✔✔kidney
Site where nutrients are absorbed into the bloodstream - ✔✔small intestine
Site where water and minerals are absorbed into the body - ✔✔large intestine
Urinary systems order - ✔✔kidney (nephron), ureter, bladder, urethra
Throat - ✔✔pharynx
Voicebox - ✔✔larynx
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,Epiglottis - ✔✔flap covering trachea
Blood leaves the heart to body - ✔✔left ventricle
Blood enters heart from body - ✔✔right atrium
Blood leaves heart to lungs - ✔✔right ventricle
Blood enters heart from lungs - ✔✔left atrium
Exchange oxygen, nutrients, and wastes with the tissues of the body - ✔✔capillaries
Arteries - ✔✔carry oxygenated blood away from the heart
Veins - ✔✔carry deoxygenated blood back to the heart
Universal blood donor - ✔✔type O
Universal blood recipient - ✔✔type AB
2 parts of nervous system - ✔✔central & peripheral
2 parts of peripheral nervous system - ✔✔somatic & autonomic
2 pats of autonomic nervous system - ✔✔sympathetic & parasympathetic
Controls all voluntary activities and receives sensory input - ✔✔cerebrum
Coordinates motor activity - ✔✔cerebellum
Regulates homeostasis and secrets hormones - ✔✔hypothalamus
Controls involuntary actions such as breathing and swallowing - ✔✔medulla
Deficiency causes night blindness, skin infections, loss of appetite, diarrhea -
✔✔vitamin A
Deficiency causes loss of appetite, beriberi - ✔✔vitamin B1
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,Deficiency causes weakness, skin infections - ✔✔vitamin B2
Deficiency causes anemia, nerve degeneration - ✔✔vitamin B12
Deficiency causes scurvy - ✔✔vitamin C
Deficiency causes rickets, tooth decay - ✔✔vitamin D
Deficiency causes anemia - ✔✔vitamin E
Deficiency causes excessive bleeding - ✔✔vitamin K
Sorts and packages proteins - ✔✔Golgi body
Digest old organelles and foreign substances - ✔✔lysosomes
Produce energy for the cell - ✔✔mitochondria
Part of the nucleus that makes ribosomes - ✔✔nucleolus
Control center of the cell and contains chromosomes - ✔✔nucleus
Form spindle fibers during cellular division - ✔✔centrioles
Site of protein synthesis - ✔✔ribosomes
Makes proteins to be exported out of the cell - ✔✔rough ER
Makes lipids and detoxifies enzymes - ✔✔smooth ER
Stores wastes and other materials - ✔✔vacuole
Phases of mitosis - ✔✔interphases, prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase
Primitive plants lacking true stems - ✔✔bryophytes
2 types of tracheophytes - ✔✔gymnosperms & angiosperms
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, 2 types of angiosperms - ✔✔monocots & dicots
The area of the earth where all living things exists - ✔✔biosphere
A large region of the earth - ✔✔biome
The interaction of living and nonliving things - ✔✔ecosystem
The area in which a group of populations live - ✔✔community
A group of individuals that belong to the same species - ✔✔population
4 geologic time periods - ✔✔Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic
3 marine biome zones - ✔✔intertidal, neritic, oceanic
4 layers of atmosphere from lowest to highest - ✔✔troposphere, stratosphere,
mesosphere, thermosphere
Large pieces of space rock - ✔✔asteroids
Small pieces of space rock and metal - ✔✔meteoroids
Meteoroids that pass through earth's atmosphere - ✔✔meteors
Meteors that strike the ground - ✔✔meteorites
Make up of rock, dusts, methane, and ice - ✔✔comets
When the moon moves between the sun and earth - ✔✔solar eclipse
When the earth moves between the sun and moon - ✔✔lunar eclipse
Freezing point of water (C,F,K) - ✔✔0, 32, 273.15
Boiling point of water (C,F,K) - ✔✔100, 212, 373.15
Formula to convert F to C - ✔✔F=9/5C+32
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general science Questions and
Answers 100% Pass
Mnemonic for classification - ✔✔King Philip Came Over From Germany Soaked
3 unicellular kingdoms - ✔✔archaebacteria, eubacteria, Protista
3 multicellular kingdoms - ✔✔fungi, plantae, animalia
Unicellular kingdom that has nucleus and organelles - ✔✔Protista
10 animal phyla - ✔✔porifera, cnidaria, platyhelminthes, nematoda, rotifera, annelida,
mollusca, arthropoda, echinodermata, chordate
3 muscle types - ✔✔cardiac, skeletal, smooth
Organ that regulates excretion - ✔✔kidney
Site where nutrients are absorbed into the bloodstream - ✔✔small intestine
Site where water and minerals are absorbed into the body - ✔✔large intestine
Urinary systems order - ✔✔kidney (nephron), ureter, bladder, urethra
Throat - ✔✔pharynx
Voicebox - ✔✔larynx
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,Epiglottis - ✔✔flap covering trachea
Blood leaves the heart to body - ✔✔left ventricle
Blood enters heart from body - ✔✔right atrium
Blood leaves heart to lungs - ✔✔right ventricle
Blood enters heart from lungs - ✔✔left atrium
Exchange oxygen, nutrients, and wastes with the tissues of the body - ✔✔capillaries
Arteries - ✔✔carry oxygenated blood away from the heart
Veins - ✔✔carry deoxygenated blood back to the heart
Universal blood donor - ✔✔type O
Universal blood recipient - ✔✔type AB
2 parts of nervous system - ✔✔central & peripheral
2 parts of peripheral nervous system - ✔✔somatic & autonomic
2 pats of autonomic nervous system - ✔✔sympathetic & parasympathetic
Controls all voluntary activities and receives sensory input - ✔✔cerebrum
Coordinates motor activity - ✔✔cerebellum
Regulates homeostasis and secrets hormones - ✔✔hypothalamus
Controls involuntary actions such as breathing and swallowing - ✔✔medulla
Deficiency causes night blindness, skin infections, loss of appetite, diarrhea -
✔✔vitamin A
Deficiency causes loss of appetite, beriberi - ✔✔vitamin B1
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,Deficiency causes weakness, skin infections - ✔✔vitamin B2
Deficiency causes anemia, nerve degeneration - ✔✔vitamin B12
Deficiency causes scurvy - ✔✔vitamin C
Deficiency causes rickets, tooth decay - ✔✔vitamin D
Deficiency causes anemia - ✔✔vitamin E
Deficiency causes excessive bleeding - ✔✔vitamin K
Sorts and packages proteins - ✔✔Golgi body
Digest old organelles and foreign substances - ✔✔lysosomes
Produce energy for the cell - ✔✔mitochondria
Part of the nucleus that makes ribosomes - ✔✔nucleolus
Control center of the cell and contains chromosomes - ✔✔nucleus
Form spindle fibers during cellular division - ✔✔centrioles
Site of protein synthesis - ✔✔ribosomes
Makes proteins to be exported out of the cell - ✔✔rough ER
Makes lipids and detoxifies enzymes - ✔✔smooth ER
Stores wastes and other materials - ✔✔vacuole
Phases of mitosis - ✔✔interphases, prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase
Primitive plants lacking true stems - ✔✔bryophytes
2 types of tracheophytes - ✔✔gymnosperms & angiosperms
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, 2 types of angiosperms - ✔✔monocots & dicots
The area of the earth where all living things exists - ✔✔biosphere
A large region of the earth - ✔✔biome
The interaction of living and nonliving things - ✔✔ecosystem
The area in which a group of populations live - ✔✔community
A group of individuals that belong to the same species - ✔✔population
4 geologic time periods - ✔✔Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic
3 marine biome zones - ✔✔intertidal, neritic, oceanic
4 layers of atmosphere from lowest to highest - ✔✔troposphere, stratosphere,
mesosphere, thermosphere
Large pieces of space rock - ✔✔asteroids
Small pieces of space rock and metal - ✔✔meteoroids
Meteoroids that pass through earth's atmosphere - ✔✔meteors
Meteors that strike the ground - ✔✔meteorites
Make up of rock, dusts, methane, and ice - ✔✔comets
When the moon moves between the sun and earth - ✔✔solar eclipse
When the earth moves between the sun and moon - ✔✔lunar eclipse
Freezing point of water (C,F,K) - ✔✔0, 32, 273.15
Boiling point of water (C,F,K) - ✔✔100, 212, 373.15
Formula to convert F to C - ✔✔F=9/5C+32
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