Life Processes and Movement in Living Organisms

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Why do we whisper when we want to talk to our friends in class?

  • To follow class rules
  • To conserve energy
  • To ensure that only our friends hear us
  • To avoid disturbing other students (correct)

What provides control and coordination in animals?

  • Digestive and excretory tissues
  • Endocrine and reproductive tissues
  • Respiratory and circulatory tissues
  • Nervous and muscular tissues (correct)

What tissues are used to provide control and coordination activities in multicellular organisms?

  • Skeletal tissues
  • Specialized tissues (correct)
  • Connective tissues
  • Epithelial tissues

What triggers the appropriate movement in response to changes in the environment?

<p>Recognition of various events in the environment (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which type of movement is associated with growth?

<p>Pushing soil aside in plants (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the possible reason we associate visible movements with life?

<p>Movement is a response to environmental changes (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the purpose of buffaloes chewing cud?

<p>To aid digestion (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What do living organisms attempt to do through movement?

<p>Adapt to their environment (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does the text suggest about the movement of a cat running?

<p>It is a response to environmental changes (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Why do plants grow out into the sunshine?

<p>To obtain sunlight for photosynthesis (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the possible reason we associate visible movements with life?

<p>Movement is seen as an attempt by living organisms to use changes in their environment to their advantage (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What triggers the appropriate movement in response to changes in the environment?

<p>Changes in the external environment (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does the text suggest about the movement of a cat running?

<p>It is a response to a change in the environment (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the purpose of buffaloes chewing cud?

<p>To help break up tough food for better digestion (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Why do plants grow out into the sunshine?

<p>To obtain sunlight for photosynthesis (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What tissues are used to provide control and coordination activities in multicellular organisms?

<p>Nervous and endocrine tissues (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is responsible for providing control and coordination in animals?

<p>Nervous and muscular tissues (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Where are the receptors for detecting taste and smell usually located?

<p>In the sense organs like the inner ear and nose (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What sets off a chemical reaction that creates an electrical impulse in a nerve cell?

<p>The dendritic tip (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What allows the delivery of nervous impulses from neurons to other cells such as muscle cells or glands?

<p>Synapse (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which part of the neuron is responsible for acquiring information?

<p>Dendritic tip (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Where does the electrical impulse travel from in a nerve cell?

<p>Dendrite to cell body (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is responsible for creating an electrical impulse in a nerve cell?

<p>Dendritic tip (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What starts a similar electrical impulse in a dendrite of the next neuron?

<p>Chemical release at the synapse (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What allows delivery of nervous impulses from neurons to other cells?

<p>(i) Synapse (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is nervous tissue made up of?

<p>Network of neuron cells (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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