Biology Do Now 8/21

How can you tell this plant is a living thing?

• It doesn't move.
• It is made up of different parts.
• It responds to a change in its environment.
• It needs shelter.

Which of these do living things NOT need for a species to survive?

• DNA/RNA

• ability to respond to change

• ability to make a permanent home

• ability to reproduce

• ability to use energy

Before a soccer game Charlie always eats a big dinner. Which characteristic of life does this face best describe? 

• living things use energy
• living things reproduce
• living things grow and develop
• living things are based on a universal genetic code

What is the responding variable?

• what we are changing or testing

• what we are observing or measuring

• what we are keeping the same to make the experiment fair

What is the manipulated variable?

• what we are changing or testing

• what we are observing or measuring

• what we keep the same to make the experiment fair

Provides usable energy for other life functions

• growth
• cellular respiration
• digestion
• excretion

Which of the following is an example of homeostasis?

• adapting to your environment

• maintaining an appropriate respiration rate

• the sum of all of your chemical reactions

• being composed of more than one cell

Which of the following is NOT an example of an adaptation?

• birds migrating during the winter months

• the total sum of all the chemical reactions in your body

• humans evolving the ability to digest lactose (sugar in milk)

• the ability of dolphins to communicate in aquatic environments

The variable that is being tested, counted, or measured and is responding to the independent variable is known as 

• Control
• Constant
• Independent Variable
• Dependent Variable

The variable the is changed on purpose is..

• Constant
• Control
• Independent Variable
• Dependent Variable