Characteristics of Living Things
Needs of Living Things
Classification of Living Things
Domains and Kingdoms
Biomes and Ecosystems
100
other living things
Where do living things come from?
100
autotroph
What is the name for an organism that make's its own food?
100
classification
What is the process of grouping things based on their similarities?
100
prokaryotes
What do you call organisms whose cells do not have a nucleus?
100
deciduous
What type of forest biome has trees that shed their leaves each year?
200
spontaneous generation
What do you call the mistaken idea that living things can come from nonliving sources?
200
they cannot make their own food and must obtain energy by feeding off other organisms
Why are animals and fungi classified as heterotrophs?
200
to organize living things into groups that make them easier to study
What do scientists use classification?
200
bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes
What are the three domains of organisms?
200
taiga
What is another name for a boreal forest, which is made up mostly of evergreen trees?
300
stimulus
What is a change in the environment that causes an organism to respond?
300
homeostasis
What is the word that describes the maintenance of stable internal conditions regardless of changes in the environment?
300
taxonomy
What is the name for the scientific study of how living things are classified?
300
their cells have no nucleus
Explain why bacteria and archaea are not considered eukaryotes?
300
temperature and precipitation
What are the two main categories that determine an area's biome?
400
multicellular
What is a word to describe organisms such as ourselves that have many different kinds of complex cells?
400
Redi and Pasteur
What scientists did experiments that helped us better understand how organisms reproduce?
400
domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species - name of the organism
Name in order the levels of classification and give the significance of the last two.
400
protists, fungi, plants, and animals
What are the four kingdoms of eukaryotes?
400
plants can only grow when the top layer of permafrost melts in the summer
What can plants only grow in a tundra biome during limited summer months?
500
cellular organization, contain similar chemicals, use energy, respond to their surroundings, grow and develop, reproduce
What characteristics do living things share?
500
water, food, living space, and stable internal conditions
What basic needs to all living things share?
500
Carolus Linnaeus, binomial nomenclature
Who developed the system we currently use to name organisms and what is his system called?
500
protist
Which kingdom contains both autotrophs and heterotrophs as well as unicellular and multicellular organisms?
500
estuaries, intertidal zones, neritic zones, and the open ocean
What are some marine ecosystems?
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