Q1. What does the word biology mean? Q4. If you stacked 4.6 billion pieces of paper on top of each other, how high would the pile be?

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1 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: or if this fails to load go to 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? (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.

2 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? Q11. How did birds develop the ability to fly? Q12. Astronomers believe that life might be present on which of Jupiter's moons? (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? Q16. Describe how plants move Q17. Name 4 functions necessary for life that are carried out through chemical reactions 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

3 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? (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. Q25. What do you call scientists who classify living things? Q26. What are the 5 Kingdoms that biologists have developed? Q27. Animals with a backbone belong to which order? Q28. What are the 5 classes in the Animal Kingdom? (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? Q31. The Moneran Kingdom consists of what?

4 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? (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 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? Q44. The cell membranes found in animal cells contain a chemical called?

5 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? 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? ( 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

6 Q57. What is an organism? From the menu page select the option Learn about Viruses Q58. What is a virus? Q59. Is a virus a living thing? Explain your answer. 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? 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. 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. END OF WEBQUEST