Energy Use
Response to Stimuli
Growth and Development
Taxonomy
Grab Bag
100
These organisms provide their own food for energy through the process of photosynthesis.
What are autotrophs?
100
Any change in an organism’s surroundings that will cause the organism to react.
What is a stimulus?
100
The process whereby the organism becomes larger (has an increase in height, mass, and/or overall size).
What is growth?
100
The study of how scientists classify organisms.
What is taxonomy?
100
Energy that's stored.
What is potential energy?
200
These organisms must find an external source for food.
What are heterotrophs?
200
Amount of light, temperature, sound, amount of water, space, amounts or types of food, or other organisms present are.
What are examples of environmental stimuli?
200
The process that occurs in the life of the organism that results in the organism becoming more complex structurally.
What is development?
200
Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
What are the levels of classification?
200
• weather and clouds occur in this layer • water vapor and carbon dioxide are also found in this layer and are important in the weather conditions in the layer • as altitude increases temperature decreases • extends from the surface of the earth up to 6-20km high
What is the Troposphere?
300
_______ is released from food in most organisms through the process of respiration.
What is energy?
300
The reaction to a stimulus.
What is the response?
300
Organisms require _____ to grow and develop.
What is energy?
300
Plants, Animals, Fungi, Protists, Monerans
What are the five kingdoms?
300
______ energy from the sun causes water to evaporate and/or transpire
What is thermal?
400
All organisms must obtain resources, such as ______, ______, and ______, which provide required energy.
What are food, oxygen, and water?
400
Ability to produce offspring that have similar characteristics as the parent(s)
What is reproduction?
400
Provide an example of growth that you see everyday.
Answers may vary.
400
The scientific name of an organism is made up of its
What are genus and species?
400
Absorb and retain the energy radiated from land and ocean surfaces regulating Earth’s average surface temperature and keeping it habitable
What is greenhouse gases?
500
Energy is used to perform the basic processes of life, such as ______ and ______, or _______ _______ ______.
What are growing and developing, or repairing injured parts?
500
A process that involves only one parent and produces offspring that is identical to the parent.
What is asexual reproduction?
500
Provide an example of development that you see everyday.
Answers may vary.
500
Consists of all the organisms of the same type which are able to breed and produce young of the same kind.
What is species?
500
States that energy cannot be created nor destroyed
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
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