Vocabulary
Tree Vocabulary

Vocabulary 2
Living Things
Characteristics of Living Things
100
the smallest unit of life
What is cell?
100
thin pointy needle for a leaf
What is needle-like?
100
organism that makes its own food
What is producer?
100
Give 2 examples of stimuli
What is gravity, light, sound, chemicals and temperature?
100
Most animals reproduce by this type of reproduction
What is sexual?
200
Anything that causes a reaction or a change in an organism
What is stimulus?
200
single leaf blade
What is simple leaf?
200
organism that gets energy from other organisms
What is consumer?
200
reasons living things need food
What is energy and reproduction?
200
total of all chemical activities for an organism
What is metabolism?
300
the passing of genetic traits from parents to offspring
What is heredity?
300
leaf made up of several leaflets
What is compound leaf?
300
molecules that store energy ( sugar)
What is carbohydrates?
300
twigs can be helpful during the winter because
What is there are no leaves that can help identify, but the type of twig can?
300
large molecules made of amino acids
What is proteins?
400
keeping a constant internal environment
What is homeostasis?
400
wide flat leaves
What is compound leaf?
400
organism that breaks down nutrients in dead organisms for energy
What is decomposer?
400
Leaves change color in the fall because
What is The chlorophyll breaks down, the green color disappears, and the yellow to orange colors become visible?
400
Is a river considered alive, it moves, grows and has living things in it such as fish?
What is no? - because it doesn't have all the other characteristics of life
500
The difference between asexual reproduction and sexual reproduction
What is one parent, two parents?
500
leaves that grow across from each other
What is opposite leaf arrangement?
500
molecules of energy in a form the cell can use
What is ATP?
500
DNA is important to the cell because?
What is it carries instructions to offspring for traits?
500
the 6 characteristics of life
What is have cells, DNA, grow and develop, use energy, sense and respond, reproduces?
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