Vocabulary
Characteristics of Living Things
Prokaryotic or Eukaryotic
Kingdoms
Basics
100

The smallest unit of life

What is Cell?

100

Process of increasing in size

What is Growth?

100

Contain genetic material

What is Both?
100

Multicellular and take their own food

What is Animalia?
100

Made of two or more cells

What is Multicellular?

200

Living thing made of one cell

What is Unicellular Organisms?

200

The process by which organisms create new organisms

What is Reproduction?

200

No organelles

What is Prokaryotic?

200

Multicellular and make their own food

What is Plantae?

200

Uses a magnetic field to focus a beam of electrons through an object or onto a object's surface

What is Electron Microscope?

300

Uses light and lenses to enlarge an image of an object

What is Light Microscopes?

300

Examples of internal stimuli

What is Hunger? What is Thirst?
300

Make up plants, animals, fungi, protists

What is Eukaryotic?

300

Simple unicellular organisms

What is Bacteria?

300

Seven characteristics all living things have in common

What is Characteristics of Life?

400

Ability to maintain steady internal conditions

What is Homeostatis?

400

Living things are organized by

having different structures that perform different functions

400

Live in colonies or extreme environments

What is Prokaryotic?

400

Often live in extreme environments

What is Archaea?

400

All living things are made of cells. Cells perform different functions. All cells come from preexisting cells.

What is Cell Theory?

500

Structures which have specialized functions

What is Organelles?

500

A series of changes that occur in an organism during its lifetime

What is Development?

500

Genetic material enclosed by a lining

What is Eukaryotic?

500
Unicellular or multicellular

What is Protista?

500

Two categories for cell grouping

What is Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic?