Characteristics of Life

What is the most basic unit of life?

• cell
• tissue
• organ
• organ system

Maintaining a stable internal environment is called

• homeostasis

• equilibrium

• balance

• evenness

Fire is living because it has most of the characteristics of life.

• True

• False

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic shared by all living organisms?

• Ability to move
• Ability to grow and develop
• Made up of one or more cells
• Responds to stimuli

In order for something to be considered a living organism, it must display _____ of the characteristics of living things.

• all

• some

• one

• more than half

A plant growing towards the light is an example of 

• reproduction.
• responding to a stimuli.
• metabolism.
• homeostasis.

Rocks are not living because

• they never move
• they aren't needed for humans
• they are not made of cells
• they don't break down

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

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.