Characteristics of Life

What is another way of saying organism?

• living thing
• organ system
• tissue team
• critter

When a baby kitten becomes an adult cat, this is an example of...

• energy metabolism
• growth and development
• response to stimuli
• having cells

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Maintaining a stable internal

environment is called

• homeostasis

• equilibrium

• balance

• evenness

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The dismissal bell rings and you pack up your belongings. In this scenario, what is the stimulus?

• The bell ringing
• You packing up your belongings
• More information is needed

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The image seen here is of a person shivering due to cold temperature. This is an example of an organism maintaining ________________ in action!

• Homeostasis
• Adaptations
• Evolution
• Development

The process whereby an organism produces more of its own kind

• development
• adaptation
• homeostasis
• reproduction

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A plant using sunlight to make food to use or a deer eating leaves from a shrub are examples of

• universal genetic codes.
• organisms made of cells.
• responding to a stimulus.
• metabolism.

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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

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Something that has never shown the characteristics of life and never will:

• dormant

• nonliving

• living

• dead

Something that is currently showing all the characteristics of life:

• living

• nonlivng

• dead

• dormant