Needs of Living Things
Characteristics of Living Things
More Characteristics of Living Things
Key Terms
Hodgepodge
100

This gas is needed by cells to perform cellular respiration

What is oxygen?

100

All organisms are made up of these small building blocks of life.

What are cells?

100

Basic building block in all organisms

What are Cells?

100

A change in an organism's surroundings that causes the organism to react

What is a Stimulus

100

The variable being tested in an experiment

What is the dependent variable?

200

Used as an energy source

What is Food?

200
When an organism react to changes in their environment.

What is a response to surrounding/stimulus?

200

A change in position or a chage from one place to another.

What is movement/locomotion?

200
An action or change in behavior

What is a Response

200

The variable that is changed/manipulated in an experiment

What is the independent variable?

300

Place where an organism can get food, water, and find shelter

What is Living Space/Shelter?

300

to take in food or nutrients

What is Ingestion/digestion?

300

To convert food energy into cell energy in the presence of oxygen

What is respiration?

300

The process of becoming larger

What is Growth

300

A researcher wants to determine if the color of an office has any effect on worker productivity. n an experiment, one group of workers performs a task in a yellow room while another performs the same task in a blue room. In this example, the color of the office is.....

What is the independent variable?

400

Maintaining a balance between an organisms internal environment and their external environment

What is Homeostasis?

400

To increase in size

What is growth/development?

400

To release metabolic waste from the body

What is excretion?

400

The process of change that occurs during an organisms life

What is Development?

400

Example of a multicellular organism

Will be judged by the teacher

500

Provide an example of homeostasis

What is sweating when you are hot/shivering when you are cold?

500

Useful substances produced and discharged by any living thing

What is secretion?

500

The sum of all chemical reactions in the body

What is metabolism?

500

Urea, CO2, salt, water

What are wastes?

500

These secrete hormones and other useful substances

What are glands?

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