Characteristics of Life

Characteristics of Life

100

All living things are made from this, the building blocks of life. 

What are cells?

200

Characteristic of life that involves creating offspring.

What is reproduction?

300

Characteristic of life that involves an organism changing in a structured pattern or cycle.

What is growth and development?

400

Characteristic of life in which an organism is affected by a stimulus. 

What is responding to the environment?

500

Characteristic of life that involves making food, breaking down food, moving materials in and out of cells, and building cells. 

What is using energy?

Vocabulary

100

The theory that living things can develop from nonliving matter. 

What is spontaneous generation?

200

The sum of chemical activities taking place inside a living cell or organism

What is metabolism?

300

Reproduction that involves only one parent and the offspring is identical to the parent

What is asexual reproduction?

400

Anything that affects the activity of an organism, causes it to respond to it's environment?

What is a stimulus?

500

Reproduction that involves two parents and the offspring has characteristics of both parents.

What is sexual reproduction?

Needs of Living Things

100

Organisms need this to survive - most commonly oxygen. 

What are gases?

200

Sustenance that gives an organism energy and nutrients. 

What is food?

300

Sustains life by dissolving minerals and nutrients and carries them through our body.

What is water?

400

The place in which an organism lives. 

What is a habitat?

500

Organisms use this in a multitude of ways and can ultimately be sourced back to the sun. 

What is energy?

Chemistry of Living Things

100

The most pure substance that cannot be broken down. 

What is an element?

200

Two or more elements that are chemically joined to make something new. 

What is a compound?

300

A particle consisting of two or more atoms chemically tied together. 

What is a molecule?

400

Compounds that do not contain carbon and were never living. 

What are inorganic compounds?

500

Compounds that contain carbon and are/were living. 

What are organic compounds?

Organic Compounds

100

Compound made from one or more sugar molecules, responsible for providing and storing energy. 

What are carbohydrates?

200

Compounds that make up fats and oils. 

What are lipids?

300

Compound that is made of amino acids and carries out a multitude of tasks. 

What are proteins?

400

Special proteins that speed up chemical reactions in an organism or cell.

What are enzymes?

500

Compounds that contain genetic information as well as instructions on how an organism should make the protein it needs.

What are nucleic acids?