Living Things #1

Question 1

Autotroph

Answer 1

An organism that uses the sun’s energy to convert water and gas into food.

Question 2

Heterotroph

Answer 2

An organism that cannot make its own food; a consumer.

Question 3

Characteristic

Answer 3

A feature that helps to identify something.

Question 4

Organism

Answer 4

A living thing.

Question 5

Cell

Answer 5

basic unit of structure and function in living things.

Question 6

Unicellular

Answer 6

Made of a single cell.

Question 7

Multicellular

Answer 7

Consisting of many cells

Question 8

Stimulus

Answer 8

Any change or signal in the environment.

Question 9

Response

Answer 9

An action or change in behavior that occurs as a result of a stimulus.

Question 10

Spontaneous generation

Answer 10

The mistaken idea that living things arise from nonliving sources.

Question 11

Homeostasis

Answer 11

The condition in which an organism’s internal environment is kept stable in spite of changes in the external environment.

Question 12

Species

Answer 12

A species is a group of similar organism that can produce that can also mate and reproduce.

Question 13

Classification

Answer 13

Classification is the process of grouping things based on there similarities.

Question 14

Taxonomy

Answer 14

The study of how living are classified

Question 15

Domain

Answer 15

The most basic level of organization in the classification of organisms.

Question 16

Evolution

Answer 16

Change over time; the process by which modern organisms have descend from accent ones.

Question 17

Virus

Answer 17

A tiny, nonliving particle that enters and then reproduces inside a living cell.

Question 18

Host

Answer 18

An organism that a parasite lives with, in, or on and provides a source of energy or a suitable environment for the parasite to live.

Question 19

Vaccine

Answer 19

A substance used in a vaccination that consists of pathogens that have been weakened or killed but can still trigger the body to produce chemicals that destroy the pathogens.

Question 20

Bacteria

Answer 20

Single-celled organisms that lack a nucleus; prokaryotes.

Question 21

Protist

Answer 21

A eukaryotic organism that cannot be classified as plant, animal, or fungus.

Question 22

Parasite

Answer 22

An organism that benefits by living with, on, or in a host in a parasitism interaction.

Question 23

Resistant

Answer 23

Not affected, harmed, or destroyed by something.

Question 24

Tissue

Answer 24

A group of similar cells that perform that perform a specific action

Question 25

Vascular plants

Answer 25

A plant that has true vascular tissue for transporting materials.

Question 26

Nonvascular plants

Answer 26

A low-growing plant that lacks true vascular tissue for transporting materials.

Question 27

Vertebrate

Answer 27

An animal with a backbone.

Question 28

Invertebrate

Answer 28

An animal without a backbone.

Question 29

Organ

Answer 29

A body structure that is composed of different kinds of tissues that work together.

Question 30

Mammal

Answer 30

A vertebrate whose body temperature is regulated by its internal heat, and that had skin covered with hair or fur and glands that produce milk to feed its young.

Question 31

Symmetry

Answer 31

Having the characteristic of having closely identical feature on both sides of an imaginary center dividing line.