Needs of Living Things
Characteristics of Living Things
More Characteristics of Living Things
Key Terms
Hodgepodge
100

This gas is needed by cells to perform cellular respiration

What is oxygen?

100

All organisms are made up of these small building blocks of life.

What are cells?

100

Basic building block in all organisms

What are Cells?

100

A change in an organism's surroundings that causes the organism to react

What is a Stimulus

100

Name one characteristic of a living thing

Teacher decides

200

Used as an energy source

What is Food?

200
When an organism react to changes in their environment.

What is a response to surrounding/stimulus?

200

A change in position or a chage from one place to another.

What is movement/locomotion?

200
An action or change in behavior

What is a Response

200

Name a characteristic of asexual reproductions

Teacher decides

300

Place where an organism can get food, water, and find shelter

What is Living Space/Shelter?

300

to take in food or nutrients

What is Ingestion/digestion?

300

Where an organism upon maturation breaks down into fragments (or pieces) and each fragment grows into a new organism

Fragmentation

300

The process of becoming larger

What is Growth

300

Universal Genetic Code

What is DNA?

400

Maintaining a balance between an organisms internal environment and their external environment

What is Homeostasis?

400

To increase in size

What is growth/development?

400

To release metabolic waste from the body

What is excretion?

400

The process of change that occurs during an organisms life

What is Development?

400

Example of a multicellular organism

Will be judged by the teacher

500

Provide an example of homeostasis

What is sweating when you are hot/shivering when you are cold?

500

In what productive process are genes randomly assigned to an egg or sperm

sexual reproduction

500

The sum of all chemical reactions in the body

What is metabolism?

500

regeneration

a type of asexual reproduction in which the organism is capable of regrowing certain body parts

500

is a process where a single cell divides into two identical cells

What is mitosis?