Group Work
Characteristics of Life
Basics of Life
Vocabulary
Processes of Life
100

Salamanders' limbs can regenerate.

What is growth and repair?
100

Made of one or more cells.

What is cellular organization?

100

Made up of protons, neutrons, and electrons and are the basic units of matter, as well as the defining structure of elements.

What is an atom?

100

Levels of organization from the largest/most complex to the smallest/simplest.

What is hierarchy?

100

Chemical reactions in cells.

What is Metabolism?

200

Fish breathing with gills.

What is gas exchange?

200

Nucleic acids like DNA.

What are common genetic codes?

200

Flavors of atoms.

What are elements?

200

Not alive (ex. molecules and atoms).

What is non-living?

200

Allows the organism to bring in oxygen and get rid of carbon dioxide.

What is Gas Exchange?

300

An arctic wooly bear caterpillar freezing in winter if it does't eat enough to become a moth to protect itself.

What is Metabolism?

300

Ways to pass traits from one generation to the next.

What is heredity?

300

The most important element found in all life.

What is carbon?

300

The smallest living thing.

What are cells?

300

Allows the organism to react to stimuli (their environment).

What is Response?

400

Octopi blending in with their environment to hunt or hide.

What is Response?

400

Living things can transform and use this thing to complete processes necessary for life.

What is energy?

400

A substance and is composed of one or more atoms (example: water, aka H2O).

What are molecules?

400

Atoms, molecules, and macromolecules are examples of this.

What are non-living things?
400

Getting larger, developing, and healing.

What is Growth and Repair?

500

Snakeheads reaching sexual maturity at age 2-3, mating up to 5 times a year, and releasing up to 15,000 eggs per mate.

What is reproduction?

500

The study of life.

What is biology?

500

Large molecules.

What are macromolecules?

500

A series of steps taken to achieve something in the end.

What is a process?

500

Having offspring and continuing to create more of your species.

What is Reproduction?
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