Needs of Living Things
Characteristics of Living Things
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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 that causes it can survive

What is a Adaptation

100

Name one characteristic of a living thing

Teacher decides

200

Used as an energy source

What is Food? What is Glucose? What are biomolecules?

200
When an organism react to changes in their environment.

What is a response to surrounding/stimulus?

200

This would happen if waste products were not removed from the body

Illness ando/or death

200
An action or change in behavior

What is a Response

200

All living things need this to do all their life actions.

What is energy?

300

Place where an organism can get food, water, and find a home.

What is a Habitat/Shelter?

300

Plants use these nonliving things: sunlight, H2O & CO2 in their process to live.


What is Photosynthesis?

300

This happens when living things have offspring.

What is Reproduction?

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

Sunlight and weather are examples of this

What is stimulus?

400

The process of change during an organism's 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? Hydration, Body temperature, digestion, blood circulation.

500

To take in nutrients from food and Oxygen form air

What is Cellular respiration?

500

The sum of all chemical reactions in the body

What is metabolism?

500

These are the four essential things that all living things need to survive?

What are water, air, food, and a place to live?

500

Name 2 examples of organisms that can be unicellular and multicellular.

What are Fungi, Algae?