Cells & Organization
Needs of Living Things
Characteristics of Life
Origins & History
Random
100
This is the most basic unit of life.
Cells
100
Which of the following is NOT one of the four basic needs of living things: Oxygen, Water, Shelter, or Energy?
Shelter
100
To get bigger
Grow
100
Spontaneous generation means that living things can arise from this:
Nonliving Things
100
Method to remember the characteristics of life.
MRS CHEEG
200
Similar cells working together to perform a specific activity form this structure (e.g., heart, leaf).
Tissue
200
A substance that makes up a large part of your body and helps transport materials within it is:
Water
200
To get more Complex
Develop
200
The scientist who disproved spontaneous generation by putting rotting meat into covered and uncovered jars.
Francesco Redi
200
Which characteristic of life does the diagram show?
Growth and development
300
Place these levels of organization in the correct order from smallest to largest: tissue, organism, cell, organ, organ system
cell, tissue, organ, organ system, organism
300
All living things need energy; where does most of that energy ultimately come from?
The Sun
300
The ability to maintain steady internal conditions (like body temperature) is called:
Homeostasis
300
Louis Pasteur is known for experiments that helped disprove which incorrect origin theory?
Spontaneus Generation
300
Reproduction in which a single parent produces offspring identical to the parent is called:
Asexual Reproduction
400
Name the term for a living thing made of only one cell.
Unicellular
400
The average amount of time an individual of a species is likely to live is called:
Lifespan
400
Which term describes something that displays all the characteristics of life (one-word)?
Organism
400
When did life first begin?
3.8 BYA
400
Anything in the environment that causes a response in a living thing
Stimulus
500
Which characteristic of life is shown when a houseplant grows toward light from a window?
Responds to Stimulus
500
An organism that obtains energy by eating other organisms (not making its own food) is called:
Hetertroph / Consumer
500
Which characteristic of life involves change in a population over long periods of time that helps organisms survive different environments?
Evolution / adaptation over time
500
Name of the theory that life only comes from life.
Biogenesis
500
Carries genetic information about how a living thing looks and functions. It's in every cell.
DNA
1000
These types of organisms break down dead organisms and get energy from them
Decomposers