Things around us Flashcards
what are the characteristics of living things
- Living things have various levels of organisation.
- living things need food.
- Living things respire.
- living things grow and develop.
- Bring things respond to stimuli.
- Bring things move.
- Living things reproduce.
- Living things excrete their waste.
- Things have a definite lifespan.
What are unicellular organisms?
Organisms with only one cell are called unicellular organisms.
What are multicellular organisms?
Organisms with many cells are called multicellular organisms.
What are different types of cells?
Onion cells
Bacteria
Red blood cells
What are autotrophs?
Organisms that make their own food are called auto drops.
What are called heterotrophs?
Organisms that cannot make their own food and depend on other organisms for their food requirements are called heterotrophs.
what is respiration?
The process of releasing energy from the breakdown of food in the cells are called respiration.
What is reproduction?
The ability to produce individuals of one’s own kind is called reproduction
What are biotic components?
All living things of an ecosystem such as plants animals and microorganisms are called biotic components.
what are abiotic components?
All nonliving factors of an ecosystem such as water air soil sunlight and wind oars abiotic components.
What are producers.
Plants called producers are auto drops because they make their own food through the process of photosynthesis.
what is photosynthesis?
The sentences is a process by which green plants prepare their own food in the presence of sunlight water and carbon dioxide using green pigment chlorophyll present in the leaves.
What are consumers?
Animals are called consumers as they cannot make their own food and Thus and depend on the producers on
