Life Functions

Transport is the circulation or distribution of materials within an organism, including: (check all that apply)

• oxygen

• carbon dioxide

• glucose

• water

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Reproduction is production of organisms of the same species.

It is not needed for an organism’s survival but necessary for the survival of the species!!!

• True

• False

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Respiration is DIFFERENT FROM “BREATHING!”

It is a process used by an organism to release energy from food (usually glucose). What are two types of Respiration?

Which life function is combining simpler chemical substances to form more complex ones.

• respiration

• synthesis

• growth

• excretion

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NGSS.MS-LS1-7

What is Excretion?

• process used by an organism to release energy from food

  (usually glucose).

• circulation or distribution of materials within an organism,

• involves the activities by which an organism obtains materials (food) from its environment and prepares them for use in the body

• the removal of toxic, cellular wastes products such as urine, sweat, and CO2.

True or False: Egestion is one activity in the life function Nutrition that is the removal of undigested solid wastes

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-LS1-7

What is growth?

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What life function is the adaptation of form or behavior of an organism to a change in environment?

• Respiration

• Reproduction

• Regulation

• None of the Above

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

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The person in the picture is sweating to keep his body temperature constant. Which word describes this?

• Excretion

• Respiration

• Metabolism

• Homeostasis

Which is the only life function you do not have to do to stay alive?

• Reproduction

• Excretion

• Nutrition

• Transport