Characteristics of Life
What are all living things made of?
Cells
What is the simplest level of organization?
Cells
What do we call the living parts of an ecosystem?
Biotic factors
What type of organism makes its own food?
Producer
What organelle controls the cell?
Nucleus
What is the term for maintaining a stable internal environment?
What do we call a group of similar cells working together?
Tissues
Give an example of an abiotic factor.
Water, temperature, rocks, etc
What do we call organisms that eat plants?
Herbivores
What organelle produces energy for the cell?
Mitochondria
What do we call all the chemical reactions in an organism?
Metabolism
The heart and lungs are examples of what level of organization?
Organs
What is all the different species living in an area called?
Community
What type of consumer eats both plants and animals?
Omnivores
What biomolecule provides quick energy?
Carbs
What characteristic of life ensures traits can be passed to offspring?
Reproduction
What is the most complex level of organization?
Organism
What happens when organisms fight for the same limited resource?
Competition
What happens to energy as it moves up a food chain?
It decreases/is lost
Why is the cell membrane described as selectively permeable?
It allows some substances to pass while blocking others
What is it called when an organism reacts to changes in its environment?
Response to stimuli
If one organ in the digestive system stops working, which level of organization is most directly affected?
Organ System
If a top predator is removed from an ecosystem, what is one likely effect on the rest of the community?
Prey populations increase / imbalance in the ecosystem
If grass → rabbit → fox is a food chain, which organism has the most energy?
Grass
Which organelle would be most affected if a cell could no longer make proteins?
Ribosomes