What Is Life?

What are some characteristics all living things share?

• Energy Use

• Movement

• Growth and Developement

• Reproduction

• Death

Organisms that make their own food are

• autotrophs

• heterotrophs

• Rocks

• non-living things

It is the basic unit of structure and function in an organism.

• Autotroph

• Cell

• oxygen

• Compounds

Organisms that get energy by consuming other organisms.

• Autotrophs

• Heterozygus

• Heterotroph

• Reproduce

An organism reacts to a stimulus with

• a response

• a stimulus

• an action

• an answer

An organism's ability to maintain stable internal conditions

• Homeostasis

• Osmosis

• Meiosis

• Mitosis

Which of the following is the correct order of organization in living things from most basic (simple) to most complex?

• a.  Organism, cell, tissue, organ, organ system
• a.  Organ system, organ, tissue, cell, organism
• a.  Cell, tissue, organ, organ system, organism
• a.  Cell, organ, tissue, organ, organism, organ system

Anything that can perform life processes by itself is a/an

• cell
• organ
• organism
• organ system

A group of similar cells that come together to perform a specific function is a/an

• organ
• organism
• organ system
• tissue

The smallest level of organization of life in an organism

• tissue
• cell
• organ
• organ system