Living Things

Front 1

What are the six characteristics of living things?

Back 1

Cells, response to change, reproduction, DNA, energy, growth and development

Front 2

What are the smallest units of life?

Back 2

Cells

Front 3

In multicellular organisms, there are __________ types of cells with

specific functions.

Back 3

Different

Front 4

What is a stimulus?

Back 4

Anything that causes change in an organism

Front 5

What is the maintenance of constant internal conditions?

Back 5

Homeostasis

Front 6

What is it called when 2 parents produce offspring that share traits

from both parents?

Back 6

Sexual reproduction

Front 7

What is it called when a single parent produces offspring that are the identical to the parent.

Back 7

Asexual reproduction

Front 8

What controls the structure and function of cells?

Back 8

DNA

Front 9

During ____________, DNA is passed on to the offspring, ensuring that the offspring share traits with the parents.

Back 9

Reproduction

Front 10

What is the passing of traits from parents to offspring?

Back 10

Heredity

Front 11

What is required to carry out activities that maintain life, such as

breaking down food and making more cells.

Back 11

Energy

Front 12

What is The sum of all the chemical processes occurring in an organism?

Back 12

Metabolism

Front 13

. In multicellular organisms, growth is achieved by _______ when more cells are created.

Back 13

Mitosis

Front 14

During growth, there are different _____ of life that occur as the organism develops into an adult.

Back 14

Stages

Front 15

What are the four necessities of life

Back 15

Water, air, a place to live, and food

Front 16

Cells are __% water.

Back 16

70

Front 17

Some water is obtained from ____.

Back 17

Food

Front 18

You can only survive about _ days without water.

Back 18

3

Front 19

Nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, water vapor, and other gases make up ___

Back 19

Air

Front 20

What is the process by which green plants make their own food by using sunlight and water?

Back 20

Photosynthesis

Front 21

The nonliving parts of an environment are called _______

Back 21

Abiotic

Front 22

The living parts of an environment are called _____

Back 22

Biotic

Front 23

What are all of the living and nonliving parts of the

environment.

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Ecosystem

Front 24

What is the study of how organisms interact with their environment

Back 24

Ecology

Front 25

What is it called when limited resources require organisms to compete for things like space, food, water, mates, etc?

Back 25

Competition

Front 26

What is an animal that eats another animal?

Back 26

Predator

Front 27

What is the animal that gets eaten called?

Back 27

Prey

Front 28

What is it called when two different organisms live in close association?

Back 28

Symbiosis

Front 29

Both organisms benefit

Back 29

Mutualism

Front 30

One organism benefits and the other is unaffected

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Commensalism

Front 31

one organism benefits and the other is harmed

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Parasitism

Front 32

use photosynthesis to make their own food

Back 32

Producer

Front 33

eat other organisms for food

Back 33

Consumers

Front 34

Only eat plants

Back 34

herbivores

Front 35

only eat other animals

Back 35

carnivores

Front 36

Eat both plants and animals

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omnivores

Front 37

Omnivores that eat dead plants and animals

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Scavengers

Front 38

consumers that get energy by breaking down nutrients in dead organisms

Back 38

Decomposers

Front 39

show how energy flows from one organism to another

Back 39

Food chains

Front 40

show the feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem (more realistic).

Back 40

food web

Front 41

show an ecosystem’s loss of energy as it passes through the food chain.

Back 41

Energy pyramid

Front 42

________ are at the larger bottom of the energy pyramid because that group contains the most energy

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Producers

Front 43

made of amino acids, which are used to build new proteins in cells. (meats, legumes)

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Protein

Front 44

made of sugars and store energy (bread, sugar)

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Carbohydrates

Front 45

store energy and form cell membrane (butter, oil)

Back 45

Lipids

Front 46

used to make DNA and RNA (fish and fruits)

Back 46

Nucleic acids

Front 47

carries energy (energy stored in carbs and lipids are transferred to this so it is usable by cells)

Back 47

ATP

Front 48

Characteristics of Life ....

a.makes the organism a living things

b. helps the organism stay alive

Back 48

A

Front 49

Necessities of Life ....

a.makes the organism a living things

b. helps the organism stay alive

Back 49

B