Needs of Living Things
Characteristics of Life
Classifying Organisms
Domains and Kingdoms
WILD CARD :)
100
The source of energy for most autotrophs is a. water. b. the sun. c. heterotrophs. d. other autotrophs.
What is b) the sun?
100
Homeostasis refers to an organism’s ability to a. maintain stable internal conditions. b. compete for living space. c. dissolve chemicals. d. obtain energy.
What is a) maintain stable internal conditions?
100
Organisms that make their own food are called ____________________.
What are autotrophs?
100
Which group of organisms includes only multicellular heterotrophs? a. protists b. bacteria c. plants d. animals
What is d) animals?
100
Spontaneous generation is a mistaken idea because living things a. exhibit binomial nomenclature. b. are produced only by living things. c. do not reproduce. d. maintain homeostasis.
What is b) are produced only by living things?
200
Many organisms have structures for protection and survival. Which structure is most similar to tree bark? a. bird beak b. bear claws c. human skin d. snake fangs
What is c) human skin?
200
Life is organised into cells - some organisms are unicellular and others are ___________.
What is multicellular?
200
The bones in the wing of a bat are similar to the bones in the flipper of a whale. This information suggests that bats and whales have a similar ____________________ history.
What is evolutionary?
200
Archaea are not classified with ____________________, the other prokaryote domain, because they have different chemical makeups.
What is Bacteria?
200
An organism’s ability to maintain stable internal conditions despite changes in its surroundings is called ____________________.
What is homeostasis?
300
An organism that cannot make it's own food
What is a heterotroph?
300
A sunflower rotates throughout the day to follow the sun. The sun is an example of a ______________ - or a thing in the environment that provokes a response.
What is stimulus?
300
The first word in an organism’s scientific name is its ____________________.
What is genus?
300
The ____________________ kingdom is the only kingdom of eukaryotes that contains both autotrophs and heterotrophs and both unicellular and multicellular organisms.
What is Protist?
300
All _______________ are heterotrophs, but some are unicellular (like yeast) and some are multicellular (like mushrooms).
What is fungi?
400
Most living things can live only a few days without _______
What is water?
400
The experiments of Redi and Pasteur helped to demonstrate that a. species gradually change over time. b. living things do not arise from nonliving material. c. organisms can be placed in groups based on their similarities. d. the chemicals of life could have arisen on early Earth.
What is b) living things do not arise from nonliving material?
400
Which domain(s) include(s) only prokaryotes? a. Bacteria and Archaea b. Bacteria only c. Archaea only d. Eukarya only
What is a) bacteria and archaea?
400
The _________________ kingdom is made up only of multicellular autotrophs.
What is plant?
400
Seaweed is an example of a large, multicellular __________ in the "odds and ends" kingdom.
What is protist?
500
Because there is a limited amount of space on Earth, some organisms must _____________ for space.
What is compete?
500
Louis Pasteur designed an experiment in which new bacteria in a broth appeared only when there were pre-existing bacteria. Suppose that spontaneous generation is correct. What should Pasteur have observed after a few days in the boiled and unboiled broth?
What is a cloudy appearance in both flasks?
500
An owl and a bat share the same kingdom and phylum; an owl and a robin share the same kingdom, phylum, and class. The owl and ____________________ have more characteristics in common.
What is robin?
500
The _________________ kingdom is made up only of multicellular heterotrophs.
What is animal?
500
The characteristic that all eukaryotes have in common is a __________
What is nucleus?
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