Living vs Non-Living
Is a rock living or non-living
Living organisms are made up of one or more what?
Cells
How do humans get energy
Eat
What are the characteristics of living things?
Grow, eat, reproduce, breathe, respond to stimuli, move, and excrete
What is a hypothesis?
A Guess
Is a seed Living or Non-Living?
A seed can grow into a plant when it gets the right conditions, such as water, oxygen, and warmth.
Unicellular organisms are made up of what?
One cell
Offspring created by one parent
Asexual
Living things produce what?
Offspring.
Reproduce
What is a constant in the scientific method?
Something that is kept the same throughout the entire experiment
A crystal can grow larger over time. Is it living or non-living?
Non-Living. it lacks cells, metabolism, genetic material, and the ability to actively maintain itself or reproduce through biological processes
Multicellular organisms are made up of what?
Many cells
Offspring is created by two parents
Sexual Reproduction
Is a mushroom a living thing or a nonliving thing?
Living
What is the dependent variable?
It is the variable that you measure
Fire can grow, move, and use oxygen. Why is fire still considered nonliving?
Fire does not have cells, reproduce like living organisms, or carry out all the characteristics of life.
A change in an organism's surroundings that causes the organism to react is
Stimulus
What is the genetic code that living organisms have used for?
DNA
Passing specific characteristics down to the next generation (eye color, hair color, or hair type)
what is it called when a plant grows towards the sun?
Stimuli
What is an independent variable?
It is the variable that you change
A scientist finds something that grows, uses energy, responds to its surroundings, and is made of cells. Is it living or non-living?
It is living because it has several important characteristics of life, including being made of cells, growing, using energy, and responding to its environment.
Maintaining an internal balance or temperature (inside our body) is called what?
homeostasis
What does it mean to be considered living?
Able to carry out all the functions of living organisms throughout your lifetime (grow, eat, reproduce, breathe, respond to stimuli, move, excrete).
Change over a long period of time is called what?
Adapt
What is the control group?
The group that is the standard of comparison