Living Organisms Flashcards

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Features of life

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Use Energy
Respond to stimuli
One or more cells
Life span
Locomotion
Maintain Homeostasis
Adapt
Reproduce
Grow and develop

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3 things organisms need to live

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Air,Water,and Energy

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Biotic

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Living

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Abiotic

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Nonliving,was never alive

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Dead

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Was once living, but not anymore

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Organism

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A living thing, has all the characteristics of life

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Cell

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The Smallest unit of life

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Multicellular

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Describes a living thing that is made of two or more cells.

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Growth

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Increase in an organism

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Development

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When an organism becomes more complex

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Spontaneous Generation

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The idea that living things come from nonliving things.

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Stimulus

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Anything that makes you react

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Response

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Your reaction to a stimulus

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Homeostasis

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An organism’s ability to maintain

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Adapt

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Change over time to become better fitted to the environment and to survive

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