Living Organisms Flashcards
Features of life
Use Energy
Respond to stimuli
One or more cells
Life span
Locomotion
Maintain Homeostasis
Adapt
Reproduce
Grow and develop
3 things organisms need to live
Air,Water,and Energy
Biotic
Living
Abiotic
Nonliving,was never alive
Dead
Was once living, but not anymore
Organism
A living thing, has all the characteristics of life
Cell
The Smallest unit of life
Multicellular
Describes a living thing that is made of two or more cells.
Growth
Increase in an organism
Development
When an organism becomes more complex
Spontaneous Generation
The idea that living things come from nonliving things.
Stimulus
Anything that makes you react
Response
Your reaction to a stimulus
Homeostasis
An organism’s ability to maintain
Adapt
Change over time to become better fitted to the environment and to survive