6 Characteristics of Living Things Vocabulary
These are the most basic unit of life.
What are cells?
A plant has nucleic acids that make DNA.
What is living things contain similar chemicals?
This basic need is acquired by plants through rain.
What is water?
This is what the sugar acted as for the yeast.
What is food?
This is the color of polar bear skin.
What is black?
This is when one parent organism produces an offspring.
What is asexual reproduction?
A lion must eat other animals to survive.
What is use energy?
This basic need is acquired by jaguars through hunting.
What is food?
This is what Cup A (just sand) acted as.
What is a control variable.
This is the only mammal that can fly.
This is a change in an organism's surroundings that causes an organism to react.
What is a stimulus?
Two parent penguins have one baby penguin.
What is reproduce?
This basic need explains why two plants that are planted too close together will not survive.
What is living space?
This is why we perform multiple trials of an experiment.
What is to get accurate results?
This is the largest bird in the world.
This is an organism that is able to convert energy from the sun into food.
What is an autotroph or producer?
Your eyes immediately adjust to the light when you walk outside on a sunny day.
What is respond to the environment?
This basic need explains why a lizard might be found basking under a heat lamp.
Stable Internal Conditions
These are the materials in the experiment that were NOT alive.
Sand, Alka-Seltzer, sugar
Though rarely portrayed as such (example: Jurassic Park), these small dinosaurs were believed to have feathers.
What are velociraptors?
This is when an organism becomes more complex.
What is develop?
A tadpole becoming a frog over time.
What is grow and develop?
This is an example of Stable Internal Conditions.
Example answers:
What is shivering?
What is sweating?
These are the two pieces of evidence we had that the yeast was alive.
Growth (foam) and using energy (odor).
This large mammal has pink sweat.
What is a hippo?