Characteristics of Life

All living things must be able to maintain a stable internal environment

• Cellular organization

• Metabolism

• Homeostasis

• Reproduction

• Growth and development

Groups of living things must have the ability to create offspring

• Metabolism

• Response to stimuli

• Evolution through adaptation

• Reproduction

• Cellular organization

Living things can respond to changes in their internal and external environment

• Response to stimuli

• Heredity

• Evolution through adaptation

• Cellular organization

• Growth and development

Living things are made of one or more than one cells

• Reproduction

• Growth and development

• Heredity

• Cellular organization

• Response to stimuli

Groups of living things can change over many generations based on inherited traits

• Cellular organization

• Reproduction

• Heredity

• Metabolism

• Evolution through adaptation

Living things have genetic material that they can pass on to any offspring they may have

• Homeostasis

• Heredity

• Cellular organization

• Response to stimuli

• Growth and development

Living things get bigger and change during their lifetime

• Homeostasis

• Reproduction

• Growth and development

• Reproduction

• Cellular organization

Living things can obtain and use energy

• Heredity

• Growth and development

• Homeostasis

• Metabolism

• Response to stimuli

Which two answers relate to Biotic factors?

• The air we breathe

• A living thing

• A nonliving thing

• A bird

• A fire

Which two things relate to Abiotic factors?

• A beetle

• A nonliving thing

• Your teacher

• A living thing

• The sunlight