Characteristics and Classification Test Questions

Living organisms that provide their own food for energy through the process of photosynthesis. An example would be plants.

• heterotrophs

• development

• growth

• autotrophs

This is the process where autotrophs create their own food using the light from the sun, water, and nutrients from the soil.

• Respiration

• Photosynthesis

• Synthesis

• Inspiration

Living organisms that must find an external source of food because they cannot produce their own.

• Heterotrophs

• Respiration

• Photosynthesis

• Autotrophs

This is the process that is used by most organisms to release energy from their food.

• Response

• Photosynthesis

• Respiration

• Stimulus

This is any change in an organism’s surroundings that will cause the organism to react.

• Response

• Development

• Growth

• Stimulus

The reaction to the stimulus.

• Response

• Development

• Growth

• Stimulus

A reproductive process that involves only one parent and produces offspring that is identical to the parent.

• Response

• Sexual Reproduction

• Asexual Reproduction

• Stimulus

A reproductive process that involves two parents and produces offspring that is different from both parents.

• Response

• Sexual Reproduction

• Asexual Reproduction

• Stimulus

The process whereby the organism becomes larger.

• Respiration

• Development

• Growth

• Photosynthesis

The process that occurs in the life of the organism that results in the organism becoming more complex structurally.

• Photosynthesis

• Development

• Growth

• Respiration