6TH Grade Test 1 Flashcards
Autotroph
An organism that is able to form nutritional organic substances like carbon dioxide.
Heterotroph
An organism deriving its nutritional requirements from complex organic substances
Characteristic
A feature or quality belonging typically to a person place or thing and serving to identify it.
Organism
An individual plant or animal or single celled life form.
Cell
The basic structural, functional and biological unit of all known organisms.
Multicellular
Of an organism or part having or consisting of many cells
Stimulus
Anything that makes an organism react in some way
Unicellular
Characterized by the formation or presence of a single cell or cells
Response
An answer or reply
Spontaneous generation
The supposed production of living organisms from non living matter.
Homeostasis
A relatively stable equilibrium between interdependent elements