U1M2 Quiz Review (GSI)

What is NOT a characteristic of life?

• Responding to stimuli

• Obtaining and using energy

• Movement

• Growing and developing

What is the smallest unit that is considered fully alive?

• Atom

• Cell

• Molecule

• Organ

What trait is shown when an organism creates offspring that share its traits?

• Growth

• Development

• Reproduction

• Evolution

What characteristic of life determines an organism's inheritance of traits?

• Genetic code (DNA)

• Made of cells

• Using and gaining energy

• Responding to the environment

If you reach out to touch a frog but it hops away, what characteristic of life is that showing?

• Evolution

• Responding to stimuli

• Growing and developing

• Maintaining homeostasis

What is the term for regulating or controlling the internal conditions of an organism (such as body temperature)?

• Adapting to surroundings

• Developing

• Homeostasis

• Molecularity

_____ is anything that takes up space and has mass.

• Atom

• Molecule

• Matter

• Compound

What is matter made of?

• Cells

• Tissues

• Organs

• Atoms

What is the smallest unit of matter?

• Cells

• Atoms

• Compounds

• Elements

The nucleus of an atom is made of...

• electrons and protons

• neutrons and elements

• protons and neutrons

• cells and tissues