Characteristics
of Life
of Life
Only populations (not individual organisms) can undergo this characteristic of life.
What is adapt and evolve?
One single living thing
What is an Organism?
A tool used for identifying organism based on characteristics like number of limbs or eyes
What is a dichotomous key?
This stage of the water cycle is facilitated by living things
What is transpiration?
A permeable rock layer where infiltrated water can collect
What is an aquifer?
This characteristic of life refers to the chemical processes within an organism that allow it to use/create energy.
What is Metabolism?
Multiple ecosystems that share similar/same abiotic and biotic factors but are located in multiple places around the world.
What is a biome?
A diagram that shows relatedness between organisms that does not show ancestral relationships
What is a cladogram
Every stage of this cycle is dependent on living things
What is the Nitrogen Cycle?
When a body of water gets excess nutrients from runoff and is overrun by algae
What is eutrophication?
This form of reproduction produces genetically identical offspring
What is asexual?
Multiple species populations living together
What is a Community?
The variety of species in an environment
What is Biodiversity?
Organisms processing energy and producing CO2 waste into the atmosphere
What is cellular respiration
Combustion is an example of human impact on which nutrient cycles
What are the carbon cycle and the nitrogen cycle
Even though trees are living, logs are not because they violate this characteristic of life
What is capable of growth?
A community plus all abiotic factors in the environment
What is an ecosystem?
The field of biology that focuses on classifying organisms
What is taxonomy?
These 2 stages are present in multiple nutrient cycles
What are combustion and decomposition
Ecology is the study of this
What is relationships (between organisms and between an organism and its environment)
Humans and other animals shivering in the cold or sweating in the heat is an example of this
What is Response to Stimuli?
All living things on earth
What is the biosphere?
Genus and species are used in this 2-name naming system used to classify organisms
What is Binomial Nomenclature?
These stages of the nitrogen cycle are made possible by bacteria (name 3 get 500, name all 5 and get 1000)
What are nitrogen fixation, decomposition, ammonification, nitrification and denitrification
These key stages in the carbon cycle also affect (but are not considered key stages of) the water cycle
What are photosynthesis and cellular respiration?