Characteristics of Life

When you step out into the cold, your body shivers in order to keep its temperature at 98.6F.

• All living things use energy
• All living things contain cells
• All living things maintain homeostasis
• All living things grow

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Green plants produce their own food through the process of photosynthesis.

• All living things use energy
• All living things contain cells
• All living things maintain homeostasis
• All living things grow

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All living things have an internal structure of ____________, which are the smallest unit of life. 

• Cells
• ATP
• Glucose
• Sugar

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The scientific name for something living is a(an)

• organism
• cell
• tissue
• human

During ___________ conditions inside our body are kept stable (the same)

• homeopathic
• Homo sapian
• homeostasis
• homologous

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What does reproduce mean?

• They grow - get larger
• They are living things
• Organisms make other organisms

Rocks are not living because

• they never move
• they aren't needed for humans
• they are not made of cells
• they don't break down

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Something that once showed all the characteristics of life but no longer does and never will again. 

• dormant
• nonliving 
• dead 
• living 

Something that is currently showing all of the characteristics of life.

• living

• nonlivng

• dead

• dormant

What is an autotroph?

• an organism that can make their own food. 
• an organism that cannot make their own food
• Herbivore
• Omnivore