Characteristics of Living Things
Types of Energy
How Living Things are Organized
Miscellaneous #1
Miscellaneous #2
100
Five characteristics of living things
What is respond to their environment, grow and develop, reproduce, use energy, are made of smaller building blocks called cells
100
The type of energy that reaches Earth from the Sun and is captured by plants
What is radiant energy
100
A group of specialized cells that perform a particular function
What is tissue
100
A group of factors that are related in some way (Hint: Things working together)
What is a system
100
A process by which organisms maintain stable internal conditions suitable for life
What is homeostasis
200
Causes a reaction
What is a stimulus
200
Energy stored in molecules (hint: food being digested in our body)
What is chemical energy
200
A basic unit of matter (Hint: begins with an "M")
What is a molecule
200
A group of organs that work together to carry out a set of functions
What is an organ system
200
Life requires this in different forms to perform functions (Ex. humans and animals eat food)
What is energy
300
Your eyes squint from the sun
What is a response
300
Energy an object has due to its motion or position
What is mechanical energy
300
The basic unit of a living system
What is the cell
300
Give the hierarchy of how living things are organized starting with cells....
What is Cells - Tissue - Organ- Organ System - Organism
300
Give an example of an organism
What is (answers vary)
400
An increase in mass and also an increase in the number of cells
What is growth
400
Carried by the flow of electric current (Ex. nerve impulses in your body)
What is electrical energy
400
A group of tissues that work together to carry out a set of functions (Ex. stomach, kidneys, liver)
What are organs
400
Organisms having one cell
What is unicellular
500
The process of making more of the same kind of organism
What is reproduction
500
This kind of energy flows whenever there is a temperature difference (Hint: heat)
What is thermal energy
500
An independently functioning living thing
What is an organism
500
Organisms having more than one cell
What is multicellular
500
Give an example of a RESPONSE to a STIMULUS
What is (acceptable answer)
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