Vocabulary
Smallest unit of structure and function in all living things?
What is a cell?
To grow is to get bigger to do this ______ requires an organism to change over time and to become more complex. Examples include life cycles and metamorphosis.
What is to develop?
This is a need of all living things. It is also known as the univeral solvent.
What is water?
A rock is living or non living?
What is Non-Living?
Oranganism that is able to make its own food.
What is an autotroph?
A characterisitc that enables an organism to live and reproduce sucessfully in its environment.
What is adaptation?
This causes an living thing to react.
What is a stimulus?
All living things need this to grow, reproduce, move and work.
What is energy?
What is an orange on an orange tree. The orange is an example of a biotic or abiotic factor?
What is Biotic?
An organism receives DNA from two parents in this process.
What is sexual reproduction?
An organism that can maintain a constant body temperature despite the outside temperatures.
What is an endotherm or endothermic?
Cells work together to form these.
What are tissues?
Organisms compete for their need of food, water and ___________.
What is Living Space?
Water in the river is a biotic or abiotic factor of the environment?
What is abiotic?
An organism is a ____________ thing.
What is living?
An organism made of only one cell.
What is uni-cellular?
The ability to keep one's internal conditions within a stable range is called this.
What is Homeostasis?
Jose and Lili ran 3 miles on a hot summer day, their body temperature increased. They sweat, this helped regulate their body temperature. The ability to maintain constant internal conditions is known as?
What is homeostasis?
Name 3 biotic factors that you could find in an ocean ecosystem.
What are fish, plants, coral, crabs, lobsters, algae, seaweed and others?
This organism cannot make its own food.
What is a heterotroph?
Organisms that can not maintain constant body temperatures and rely on the sun for their heat and to raise their body temperature are known as this.
What is ectothermic?
List the levels of organization from smallest/most simple to largest/most complex.
What is cell---tissue--organ--organ system--organism?
An Oak tree performs photosynthesis. A product of photosynthesis is this? We breathe this in and produce what for plants to take in?
What is oxygen and carbon dioxide?
Weather (clouds, storms, blue skies, wind)
What is Non-Living?
The balance of energy using and energy producing processes.
What is metabolism?