Characteristics of Life 1
What does unicellular mean?
What is made of one cell?
Specialized cells are only in ________ organisms.
What is multicellular?
What is a cell's main energy source?
What are carbohydrates?
What do organisms get from their living space?
What is a place to get food, water, and shelter?
Which basic need is a fox meeting by feeding on berries?
What is its need for food?
What is the difference between growth and development?
What is growth is the process of getting larger and the development is the process of becoming more complex?
What is a cell?
What is the basic unit of structure and function in living things?
What chemical compound includes enzymes?
Proteins
What do living things need to survive?
What is food, water, living space, and stable internal conditions?
What is a change in an organism's surroundings?
What is a stimulus?
You are startled when the fire alarm rings. What is the stimulus?
What is the fire alarm ringing?
What are the chemical compounds that all living things share?
What are carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids?
What chemical of life stores energy for later use?
What are lipids?
What is the difference between autotrophs and heterotrophs?
What is autotrophs produce their own food using photosynthesis but heterotrophs must eat other organisms for food?
Fats are an example of what chemical compound?
What are lipids?
You are startled when the fire alarm rings. What is the response?
What is being startled?
What is asexual reproduction?
What is a way in which unicellular organisms reproduce which involves only one parent and produces offspring that are identical to that parent?
What are enzymes?
What are proteins that speed up chemical reactions?
What is the term for the maintenance of stable internal conditions?
What is homeostasis?
Sugars are an example of what chemical compound?
What are carbohydrates?
What are the six characteristics all living things share?
What is ability to reproduce, grow and develop, respond to stimuli, be made of cells, obtain and use energy, and be made of similar chemical compounds.
What is the term for the combination of chemical reactions through which an organism builds up or breaks down material?
What is metabolism?
What do nucleic acids do for cells?
What are they contain the instructions to direct all of a cell's functions?
Provide an example of homeostasis?
1) You sweat when you are hot.
2) When water levels in your body decrease, chemicals in your body send signals to your brain which cause you to feel thirsty.
3) Barnacles trap water inside their hard outer plates to keep its body moist during low tides.
Define organism.
What is a living thing?