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What is the difference between a nonliving item and one that is considered dead?
A nonliving thing can never die. A dead thing was once alive.
100
Name 4 nonliving things in the lab that we did.
Jen & Naomi will judge this answer.
100
DOUBLE POINTS!!!!! :) Give an example of a stimulus.
Naomi&Jen will judge this answer.
100
What does creativity mean in science?
Creativity is thinking outside the box, and using other resources from OTHER FIELDS to help find the answer to something.
100
This type of work is plagiarized and fake.
What is "fraudulent work"?
200
How is phototropism (the plant bending toward the light) an example of homeostasis?
This is an example because the plant is responding to the environment. It is moving towards a place with more sunlight, which means more food.
200
What are some characteristics of nonliving things? Name 4.
Most nonliving things: -do not need nutrition -do not excrete and reproduce. -do not respond to the environment. -do not evolve. There is no metabolic activity going on. They do not grow.
200
Living things produce offsprings like themselves through a process called ______________.
What is "reproduction"?
200
This means it does not last forever and can change.
What is "temporary"?
200
This allows other scientists to view your work and also repeat it.
What is "peer-review"?
300
______________ is to grow and develop, obtain materials and energy (which means food) to carry out life activities.
What is "metabolism"?
300
What was the item in lab that was nonliving but had many living characteristics?
What is the "candle"?
300
DOUBLE POINTS! All living things have a universal ______________ _________.
What is "genetic code"?
300
These scientists study the past.
What is "paleontologists"?
300
These scientists study the stars and planets.
What is "astronomers"?
400
DOUBLE POINTS!!!!! What are the 8 characteristics that living things share?
1) All Living things are made of one or more cells. 2) Reproduction 3) Living things have a universal genetic code. 4) Organisms grow and develop. 5) Organisms metabolize. 6) Organisms respond to their environment. 7) As a group, organisms evolve over time. 8) Organisms maintain a stable internal environment called homeostasis.
400
Although Tim the Gecko did not move, eat, or grow when you looked at him, why was he living and not nonliving?
Overtime, Tim will display the characteristics of living things. At the time of observation, Tim may not have moved because he is nocturnal (meaning he is active at night).
400
This is the smallest living thing.
What is the "cell"?
400
List 3 reasons why the climate march was important.
Answer will be judged by Jen & Naomi.
400
What were the people at the United Nations talking about?
The people at the U.N were gathered to galvanize and catalyze climate action!!!! Leaders around the world are invited to bring bold announcements and actions to the Summit that will reduce emissions, strengthen climate resilience, and mobilize political will for a meaningful legal agreement in 2015.
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