Basic Needs of Living Things
For something to be considered alive, it must be able to ___________ and create offspring.
What is reproduce?
Animals that eat plans and other animals for food and energy are called ________.
What are consumers?
What is gather water from the soil?
_______ are at the beginning of every food chain because they make food for the rest of us.1
What are plants?
The _______ is the jelly-like material inside the cell that holds the organelles together.
What is the cytoplasm?
______________ is a living thing's ability to maintain stable internal factors (blood pressure, body temperature, water balance in cells)
What is homeostasis?
Plants are ________ because they make their own food.
What are producers?
What are the 3 ingredients a plant needs for photosynthesis?
What is water, sunlight, and carbon dioxide?
In a food web, what type of organism comes first, and what type of organism comes last?
What is a producer comes first and a decomposer comes last?
The two main types of cells are:
What are the 5 basic needs of any living organism?
What is (1) sunlight, (2) water, (3) air, (4) food, (5) habitat?
_________ break down the remains of dead animals and plants as part of a cycle to clean up our planet.
What are decomposers?
The __________ of a plant cell are where photosynthesis occurs and makes the plant green.
What are chloroplasts?
Which animal from the list is NOT a consumer:
Mouse, Owl, Snake, Worm
What is worm?
This part of the cell is on the outer layers of the cell, gives the cell shape, and allows certain things to enter and exit the cell.
What is the cell membrane?
Give two reasons why air is a basic need for any living organism.
answers may vary
(to breathe, to undergo photosynthesis, to warm the Earth, etc.)
An _________ is an area in which plants and animals interact with each other, as well as with nonliving things in the environment.
What is an ecosystem?
The ________ of the plant allow carbon dioxide to be absorbed and oxygen to be released through the leaves.
What are the stomata?
What is the difference between a food web and a food chain?
What is food chains represent the flow of food and energy from one organism to another in an ecosystem and a food web is a series of overlapping food chains?
Give 2 parts of the cell that are found in both plant and animal cells and their function.
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What is the cell membrane (allows things to enter and exit) and the nucleus (controls the functions of the cell and stores genetic material/DNA)?
Describe the role of temperature in a habitat and its importance.
What is the temperature of a habitat is important because some living organisms require sunlight to maintain their body temperature.
List the 3 types of consumers and the type of food they eat for energy.
What are:
Herbivores eat plants
Carnivores eat animals
Omnivores eat both plants and animals
Explain the role of the cell wall and the cell membrane in a plant cell.
What is the cell wall provides support and protection and the cell membrane allows certain things to exit and enter?
Give an example of a food chain beginning with the sun.
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sun --> carrot --> rabbit --> fox --> coyote
What is cell wall (provides support and protection) and the chloroplast (carries out photosynthesis)?