| A | B |
|---|
| symptoms | changes in your body compared to normal |
| movement | change in position |
| reproduce | making more living things |
| sense | reacting to things around |
| grow | increasing in size |
| respiration | process which makes energy |
| excretion | getting rid of waste |
| nutrition | requiring substances in order to carry out other life processes |
| organism | living thing |
| prescription | an order for medicine |
| diagnosis | working out what's wrong |
| aim | what you are trying to find out |
| prediction | what you think will happen and why |
| apparatus | equipment |
| method | a list of steps saying what you did |
| results | measurements or observations |
| conclusion | an explanation of what your results show |
| evaluation | how do you think you could improve your experiment to get better results |
| windpipe | trachea |
| lungs | get oxygen and get rid of carbon dioxide |
| heart | pumps blood |
| diaphragm | helps breathing |
| liver | makes and stores some substances and destroys other substance |
| kidneys | clean the blood and produce urine to excrete waste |
| bladder | stores urine |
| food pipe | gullet |
| stomach | breaks up food |
| large intestine | removes water from unwanted food |
| small intestine | breaks up food and absorbs it |
| rectum | stores faeces |
| faeces | 'poo' |
| skin | biggest organ |
| leaf | traps sunlight to make food for a plant |
| stem | carries substances around a plant, supports leaves and flowers |
| root | holds a plant in place and takes in water and other substances |
| photosynthesis | process by which a plant makes food |
| potatoes and carrots | are storage organs |
| root hair cells | increase surface area = more water absorption |
| xylem tissue | carries water in plants |
| specimen | object you look at under a microscope |
| eyepiece lens | what you look down |
| stain | a dye which makes a specimen more clear |
| iodine | a common stain |
| coverslip | small piece of glass which covers a specimen |
| slide | piece of glass the specimen is put onto |
| Robert Hooke | scientist who first used a microscope |
| tissue | a group of cells of the same type working together |
| cell surface membrane | controls what enters and leaves a cell |
| nucleus | contains genetics material |
| mitochondria | place of respiration in a cell |
| green discs which contain chlorophyll | chloroplasts |
| vacuole | storage space containing cell sap |
| cell wall | supports a plant cell |
| cellulose | strong sugar which makes a plant cell wall |
| blood vessels | tubes which carry blood |
| circulatory system | carries oxygen and nutrients around the body |
| digestive system | breaks down food and puts nutrients into the blood |
| urinary system | gets rid of waste products from the blood |
| nervous system | allows us to sense things |
| evaporation | process of losing water |
| transplant | when an unhealthy organ is replaced by a healthy one |
