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Vocabulary
Characteristics of Living Things
Producers
Consumers and Decomposers
Other Questions
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What is the definition of a stimulus?
Something that affects the activity of an organism (or something similar)
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A _______ is the smallest unit of life.
A cell.
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What is a producer?
A living thing that creates its own food.
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What is a consumer?
Any organism that needs to eat food to get energy
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What are the 4 things living things need to survive?
Air, food, water, and a place to live.
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What is a cell?
Membrane-covered structure that contains all the material needed for life.
200
Living things must ________ to their environment
Respond
200
What is the process that plants use to create their own food?
Photosynthesis
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What are the three types of consumers?
Carnivore, Herbivore, Omnivore
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How do producers and consumers rely on the sun?
Producers need the sun to have photosynthesis occur inside of them and consumers need sun to help food grow so it can be eaten.
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This type of reproduction only needs one parents and produces off-spring that look identical to the parent.
Asexual
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Sexual reproduction requires _____ parents and produce off-spring that are identical/ or not identical.
2, not identical
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Give three examples of producers.
Appropriate answers
300
__________ eat both meat and plants
Herbivore
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A car honked and the dog started barking. In this scenario, what is the stimulus and what is the response?
Stimulus- car honking Response- dog barking
400
Give an example of homestasis.
Appropriate Answer
400
Living things need _______ to carry out the basic activities of life. How do they get their _______?
Energy, through it's food- whether it be from sun, food grown, etc.
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True or false: A cat is a producer. If false, state why.
False because a cat cannot make its own food.
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What is an example of a decomposer?
Appropriate answer
400
Binary fission is an example of _________?
Asexual reproduction
500
Define DNA.
Deoxyribonucleic Acid- the genetic material that controls the and function of cells.
500
All living things must _______ and ______. (For example, a tadpole turns into a frog.)
Grow and mature
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What are the three things need for photosynthesis to occur?
Sun, water, and carbon dioxide
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Could life exist without decomposers? Why?
No, life could not exist because decomposers break down dead material and put them back into the ground.
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What is at the top of the food chain? What is at the bottom?
Humans Decomposers