Classification Vocabulary

An organism that makes its own food

• Autotroph

• Heterotroph

• Decomposer

• Animal

An organism that cannot make its own food, and must consume other organisms for energy

• Autotroph

• Heterotroph

• Decomposer

• Plant

Made of a single cell

• Unicellular

• Multicellular

• Nucleus

• Animals

Consisting of many cells

• Unicellular

• Multicellular

• Nucleus

• Bacteria

able to obtain energy from light and convert it to chemical energy (food)

• Photosynthetic

• Heterotrophic

• Chemosynthetic

• Decomposers

able to use the energy from chemical reactions to construct organic food molecules

• Photosynthetic

• Heterotrophic

• Chemosynthetic

• Decomposers

Helps cells move

• Flagella

• Cilia

• Pseudopods

• All of the above

Cannot move

• Motile

• Asleep

• Stationary

• Antimotion

Capable of movement

• Motile

• Asleep

• Stationary

• Antimotion

A cell with NO NUCLEUS containing the DNA.

• Prokaryote

• Eukaryote

• Taxonomy

• Cell