Needs 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

True or False: All living things breathe

False

100

The study of living things is called? 

What is Biology?

100

The variable being tested in an experiment

What is the dependent variable?

200

Used as an energy source

What is Food?

200

What is the jelly life fluid that holds organelles in place?

What is the cytoplasm?

200

Basic building block in all organisms

What are Cells?

200

An action or change in behavior based on a change in the environment

What is a Response

200

A researcher wants to determine if the color of an office has any effect on worker productivity. n an experiment, one group of workers performs a task in a yellow room while another performs the same task in a blue room. In this example, the color of the office is.....

What is the independent variable?

300

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

What is Living Space/Shelter?

300
When an organism react to changes in their environment.

What is a response to surrounding/stimulus?

300

A lot of similar tissues make up....

What is an organ

300

The process of becoming larger

What is Growth

300

What is an example of a unicellular organism?

What is bacteria?

400

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

What is Homeostasis?

400

What are the "wheels" called on a microscope (there are 2)

Corase adjustment and fine adjustment

400

What are the two organelles that only plant cells have?

What are chloroplasts and cell wall

400

The process of change that occurs during an organisms life

What is Development?

400

Example of a multicellular organism

human, snail, bear, fish, plant, etc. 

500

Provide an example of homeostasis

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

500

What are 4 of the 6 characteristics of living things?

Made of cells, share similar chemicals, take in and use energy, sense and respond to changes in the environment, grow and develop, reproduce

500

What 4 things do all living things need

water, food, space to live and ability to maintain homeostasis

500

what are the 5 levels of organization (hint: starts with cells)

cells, tissues, organ, organ system, organism

500

To convert food energy into cell energy in the presence of oxygen

What is cellular respiration?