Definitions
Living Things
Characteristics of Living Things
Bonus
100
These organisms make their own food
What are AUTOTROPHS?
100
Any living thing.
What is an ORGANISM?
100
Involves only one parent, produces young identical to the parent
What is ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION?
100

Maintaining a stable internal environment. 

Homeostasis 

200
These organisms have to go find an external source of food. 
What are HETEROTROPHS?
200

A reaction to a change.

What is a RESPONSE?
200
Involves two parents, produces young that is a combination of two parents
What is SEXUAL REPRODUCTION?
200
All living things must contain

DNA/ genetic material 

300
The study of how scientists classify organisms. 
What is TAXONOMY?
300
The source of energy for most living things.
What is SUNLIGHT?
300

The process whereby the organism becomes larger (has an increase in height, mass, and/or overall size).

What is GROWTH?
300

Before playing sports, we must eat food and metabolize it. This is what example of the characteristics of living things? 

Obtaining Energy/ Nutrition 

400
This system is used to separate animals into specific groups going from broad to specific
What is the CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM?
400
The four Characteristics that all living things share.
What is THEY OBTAIN AND USE RESOURCES FOR ENERGY, THEY REPRODUCE, THEY RESPOND TO STIMULI, THEY GROW AND DEVELOP. 
400

The process that occurs in the life of the organism that results in the organism becoming more complex structurally.

What is DEVELOPMENT?
400

What are the 4 things living things MUST have in order to survive? 

Water, Food, space and homeostasis 

500
In the plant kingdom, phyla are sometimes referred to as: 
What are DIVISIONS?
500

The basic unit of structure and function in living things.

What is the CELL?
500

Energy is released from food in most organisms through the process of:

What is a RESPIRATION?
500

What is the acronym for characteristics of living things AND what does each letter mean? 

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