Characteristics of Life
Life Vocabulary
Classification
Potpourri
100
The terms unicellular and multicellular are used to describe this characteristic of living things.
How they are organized.
100
This is another term for a "living thing".
What is organism?
100
These two classification levels make up a scientific name.
What are genus and species?
100
The one characteristic that all birds share..
What is feathers?
200
This characteristic of life is the changes an organism goes through during its lifetime
What is development?
200
This is maintaining stable internal conditions, while outside conditions change (ex: a paramecium "pushing" water out of its contractile vacuoles).
What is homeostasis?
200
This tool using pairs of descriptions can be used to identify an unknown organism.
What is a dichotomous key?
200
The most basic unit of life found in all living things..
What is Cell?
300
This characteristic of life allows a species to continue to exist.
What is reproduction?
300
These are the two types of reproduction.
What are sexual and asexual
300
This classification level contains the most number of organisms (or is the broadest).
What is Domain?
300
The biological classification group under Domain..
What is Kingdom?
400
This is how many characteristics of life something needs to be considered "living".
What is six?
400
Linnaeus developed a two word naming system called this.
What is binomial nomenclature?
400
The current classification method is called this.
What is systematics?
400
An organism with no wings and 4 legs would be in group...
What is Group A?
500
Name the 6 characteristics of life.
organized, grow and develop, reproduce, respond (to stimuli), maintain certain internal conditions (homeostasis), use energy
500
On this branched diagram, the closer organisms are to each other, the more they have in common.
What is a cladogram?
500
This is the number of Kingdoms in today's current classification system.
What is six?
500
The characteristic that a wolf and caribou have in common is...
What is a backbone?