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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.

Click on the “Next” arrow

Q6. What is “Primordial soup”? ______________________________________________________


Q7. What is a cell? _______________________________________________________________

Q8. What did these first cells eat? ___________________________________________________


Q9. As the first cells carried out the business of living, what substance did they release into the

atmosphere? ____________________________________________________________________


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? ________________

Click on the “Next” arrow (You are now back to the sub menu page)

Click on “What are living things?”


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 ______________________________________________________


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 ___ ______________________________________________________________________________


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? _____________________________________________

Click on the “Next” arrow (You are now back at the sub menu page)

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.

Click on “Next” arrow

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? ______________________________________


Click on “Next” arrow (You are now back at the sub menu page)

Click on “5 Kingdoms”

Q29. How long ago was the first classification system developed? ___________________________

Q30. Who developed this system? __________________________________________________

Scroll down and click on “Next” arrow

Q31. The Moneran Kingdom consists of what? ________________________________________


Q32. The Protista Kingdom consists of what? __________________________________________

Q33. What is the main difference between protists and monerans? ___________________________


Q34. Name one common type of fungus ________________________________________________

Q35. How do fungi make their own food? ______________________________________________


Q36. How do plants get their green colour? ____________________________________________


Scroll down and click on “Next” arrow (You are now back at the sub menu page)

Click on “Cells, Tissues and Organs”


Q37. What is a tissue? ___________________________________________________________


Q38. What was the name of the scientist who first discovered the existence of cells? _____________


Q39. What is “Cell Theory” _________________________________________________________

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Q40. How big are cells? ___________________________________________________________

Q41. What do organelles do? ________________________________________________________


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? ______________________


Q45. What is the name of the jelly that fills the inside of a cell called? _______________________

Q46. What does it do? ____________________________________________________________


Q47. What does the endoplasmic reticulum do? ________________________________________


Q48. What do ribosomes do? _______________________________________________________


Q49. What do lysosomes do? _______________________________________________________

Scroll down and click on the “Next” arrow

Q50. The organelle responsible for energy production inside a cell is called? ___________________


Q51. What is the Golgi Apparatus responsible for? ______________________________________


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)


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? _______________


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 __________________________________________________


Q57. What is an organism? _________________________________________________________


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 _________________________________________________


From the main menu select the option “Learn about Genetics”


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.

Scroll down and click on the “Next” arrow 4 times

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? ____________________


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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