Chars of Living Things
This characteristic of life helps organisms make new organisms.
What is reproduction
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 maintaining internal balance? Like sweating on a hot day?
what is homeostasis?
The definition of Biology is ______
Scientific study of life
When a tadpole becomes a frog, it is showing this characteristic of life.
What is Growth and 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?
This is something that causes an organism to respond
What is a stimulus?
The largest organism on earh is _____________.
The blue whale.
This characteristic of life is seen when an organism has an involuntary reflex.
What is response to stimulus.
If an organism is made of many cells, it is this.
What is multicellular?
Traits that maximize success in an environment is describes what characteristic of life?
What is Adaptation
Your body regulates its temperature by doing this.
What is shivering or sweating?
The largest single cell on the entire earth is _______ .
An Ostrich egg
This characteristic of life is demonstrated when your brain reports that you are hungry when your blood-sugar gets low.
What is a response to stimulus
List the hierarchy of structure in an organism.
The structure is Cells, tissues, orhans, organ systems.
What is another term for energy processing?
What is metabolism?
Think: When Homeostasis is not maintained, this can happen to the organism.
What is gets sick or dies?
What is the biggest source of oxygen on earth?
Trees
When a species changes to be better at a task over time, it is showing this characteristic of life.
What is adaptation.
What characteristic describes structure?
What is order
What is one example of an organism gathering energy from the environment for cellular processing?
Possible responses:
Plants absorbing sunlight.
An Organism eating food.
Think: Many animals migrate as a response to this stimulus.
What is a change in weather/seasons?
The closest animal related related to humans is ____.
(be specific)
The chimpanze or the bonobo