Characteristics Of Living Things

Question 1

Organisms that rely on their external environment

Answer 1

Cold blooded organisms

Question 2

Organisms can do this internally though the matabolism

Answer 2

Warm blooded organisms

Question 3

The ability to maintain a constant body temperature though put the body even if the environment is changing

Answer 3

Homeostasis

Question 4

A pure substance that cannot be broken down into any simpler substances by ordinary means
Carbon hydrogen and oxygen

Answer 4

Element

Question 5

Formed when two or more elements are chemically joined

Answer 5

Compounds

Question 6

Compounds that do not contain the element carbon

Answer 6

Inorganic compounds

Question 7

Compounds found in living things that contain the element carbon

Answer 7

Organic compounds

Question 8

Main source of living things ( glucose)

Sugars and starches

Answer 8

Carbohydrates

Question 9

Fats and oils

Answer 9

Compounds called lipids that are also used as an energy source

Question 10

Proteins

Answer 10

Compounds that are made of amino acids

Question 11

Enzyme

Answer 11

Special types of proteins that regulate chemical activities with in the body

Question 12

An educated guess about why things happen the way they do

Answer 12

Theory

Question 13

Remains of once living things

Answer 13

Fossils

Question 14

Amino acids

Answer 14

Link together to form proteins

Question 15

The buildings blocks of amino acids and the basic building block of all living things

Answer 15

Proteins

Question 16

An organism that doesn’t produce their own food

Answer 16

Consumer

Question 17

An organism that produces its own food

Answer 17

Producer

Question 18

In order for a living thing to survive it needs these 6 things

Answer 18

Energy
Water
Oxygen
Food
Living space
Proper temperature

Question 19

The process in which plants make their own food

Answer 19

Photosynthesis

Question 20

An organism that has one cell

Answer 20

Unicellular

Question 21

An organism that has more that one cell

Answer 21

Multicellular

Question 22

A reaction from an organism and any change in the environment that produces a response of an organism

Answer 22

Stimulus

Question 23

An action movement or change of an organism

Answer 23

Response

Question 24

Needs two parents to produce and organism

Answer 24

Sexual reproduction

Question 25

Requires only one parent

Answer 25

Asexual reproduction

Question 26

The sum toss of all chemical reactions of an organism

Answer 26

Metabolism

Question 27

Taking in of food

Answer 27

Ingestion

Question 28

The breaking down of food into simpler substances

Answer 28

Digestion

Question 29

Requires only one parent

Answer 29

Asexual reproduction

Question 30

The sum toss of all chemical reactions of an organism

Answer 30

Metabolism

Question 31

Taking in of food

Answer 31

Ingestion

Question 32

The process by which a living thing takes in oxygen and uses it to produce energy

Answer 32

Respiration

Question 33

The process of getting rid of waste materials

Answer 33

Excretion

Question 34

The maximum time an organism is expected to live

Answer 34

Life span

Question 35

Regulate chemical activities within the body

Answer 35

Enzyme

Question 36

Stores info needed to build a protein and passes hereditary from the producer to the organism

Answer 36

DNA

Question 37

Produces energy for all living things

Answer 37

Sun

Question 38

The time that the earth was believed to have formed

Answer 38

4.6 billion

Question 39

The first true cells have believed to form

Answer 39

3.5 billion