Chars of Living Things
This characteristic of life helps organisms make new organisms.
What is reproduction (or DNA)?
This is described as making more or bigger cells
What is growth?
This is needed by organisms for sleeping, thinking, eating, and moving.
What is energy?
What is another name for Homeostasis?
Balance / Maintain Internal Condition
Plants do this to create their own food
What is photosynthesis?
When a tadpole becomes a frog, it is showing this characteristic of life.
What is Development?
This level of organization is made of different tissues
What are organs?
This is the process by which one or more organisms make new organisms.
What is reproduction?
What is a stimulus?
All organisms do this to create ATP
What is cellular respiration?
This characteristic of life is seen when an organism has an involuntary reflex.
What is response to stimuli?
If an organism is made of many cells, it is this.
What is multicellular?
This is how unicellular organisms reproduce.
What is asexual reproduction?
(Splitting and making a copy of themselves.)
Your body regulates its temperature by doing this.
What is shivering, sweating, or changing blood flow?
When ancient animals and plants died and decomposed, they eventually turned into this
What are fossil fuels?
This characteristic of life is demonstrated when your brain reports that you are hungry when your blood-sugar gets low.
What is a Homeostasis?
Growth in multicellular organisms is mostly due to an increase in the _______ of cells.
What is number?
This describes all of the chemical reactions that occur within a living thing.
What is metabolism?
When Homeostasis is not maintained, this can happen to the organism.
What is gets sick or dies?
this level of a food pyramid eats plants
What are herbivores / primary consumers
When a species changes to be better at a task over time, it is showing this characteristic of life.
What is adaptation or evolution?
When a unicellular organism grows, rather than increasing the number of cells, the organism simply does this
What is its cell increases in size?
This mode of reproduction involves the fusion of gametes
What is sexual reproduction?
A mechanism where the response tries to reverse the initial stimulus
What is a negative feedback loop?
This group of organisms are not on a food pyramid, but help to recycle most nutrients in nature
What are decomposers