Chars of Living Things
This characteristic of life helps organisms make new organisms.
What is reproduction (or DNA)?
This is described as making more or bigger cells
What is growth?
This is needed by organisms for sleeping, thinking, eating, and moving.
What is energy?
What is another name for Homeostasis?
Balance / Maintain Internal Condition
Humans maintaining a body temperature of 98.6 degrees F.
What is homeostasis?
When a tadpole becomes a frog, it is showing this characteristic of life.
What is Growth/Development?
What are all things made out of?
What are cells?
This is the process by which one or more organisms make new organisms.
What is reproduction?
What is a stimulus?
All organisms are made of 1 or more _______.
What is Cells?
This characteristic of life is seen when an organism has an involuntary reflex.
What is response to stimuli?
If an organism is made of many cells, it is this.
What is multicellular?
This is how unicellular organisms reproduce.
What is asexual reproduction?
(Splitting and making a copy of themselves.)
Your body regulates its temperature by doing this.
What is shivering, sweating, or changing blood flow?
What occurs when you touch a hot stove and pull your hand away?
responce to stimuli
This characteristic of life is demonstrated when your brain reports that you are hungry when your blood-sugar gets low.
What is a Homeostasis?
Growth in multicellular organisms is mostly due to an increase in the _______ of cells.
What is number?
This describes all of the chemical reactions that occur within a living thing.
What is metabolism?
When Homeostasis is not maintained, this can happen to the organism.
What is gets sick or dies?
What occurs when we are eating daily?
What is need for energy.
When a species changes to be better at a task over time, it is showing this characteristic of life.
What is adaptation or evolution?
When a unicellular organism grows, rather than increasing the number of cells, the organism simply does this
What is its cell increases in size?
This mode of reproduction involves the fusion or mixing of cells from 2 parents organisms.
What is sexual reproduction?
Many animals migrate yearly as a response cold weather
adaptation
Name given to organisms who make their own food.
producers/ autotrophs