Characteristics of Living Things
Living things need to eliminate this.
What is waste?
Classification is how biologists group organisms based on this.
What are characteristics?
The is the language used for scientific names.
What is Latin?
This is the scientist who proposed the theory of evolution.
Who is Charles Darwin?
This is an organism that has only one cell.
What is unicellular?
Living things need to breathe or exchange these.
What are gases?
This is the level of classification with the MOST organisms in it.
What is Domain?
Scientific names have this many parts.
What is two (2)?
This is a species that came before another.
What is an ancestor?
This is an organism made of more than one cell.
What is multicellular?
Living things pass on their genetics to their offspring by doing this.
What is reproducing?
This is the level of organization with the LEAST organisms in it?
What is Species?
The first part of a scientific name is this.
What is the Genus?
Relative dating means that we do this to different fossils.
What is compare?
This is the order of rock layers in the Earth.
What is superposition?
Living things need to obtain or make this.
What is food?
True or false:
If two organisms are in the same Genus, then they are in the same class.
What is true?
The second part of a scientific name is this.
What is the species?
This is a gradual change in species over time.
What is evolution?
This is the remains or traces of a plant or animal that have been preserved in earth or rock.
What is a fossil?
Plants make their own food using this.
What is energy from the sun?
The levels of classification groups organisms from the __________ specific to the _________ specific.
What is least, most?
Which part of the scientific name is capitalized?
What is the Genus?
This is the process of organisms with favorable traits being able to survive and reproduce.
What is natural selection?
This is a group of similar organisms that can reproduce.
What is a species?