Characteristics of Life
Resource Authors
Biomolecules
100

Increase in size or amount of living material

What is growth?

100

The author of Grit: the Power of Passion and Perseverance

Who is Angela Duckworth?

100

Biomolecules that are the main source of energy for living things

What are carbohydrates?

200

Producing like organisms to continue the species

What is reproduction?

200

The author of Play

Who is Stuart Brown?

200

Biomolecules made of the elements C H O N

What are proteins?

300

Reacting to a stimulus from the environment

What is response?

300

The author of How We Learn

Who is Benedict Carey?

300

Biomolecules that make up biological membranes

What are lipids?

400

Inherited characteristic of an organism that helps it survive

What is adaptation?

400

The venue where "practice, practice, practice" was observed

What is Carnegie Hall?

400

Biomolecules that hold genetic information

What are nucleic acids?

500

What all living things are composed of

What is cells with DNA?

500

The physical location of the 400 point answer in this category

What is New York City?

500

The two biomolecules that are made up of C H O

What are lipids and carbohydrates?

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