Characteristics of Life

When you step out into the cold, your body shivers in order to keep its temperature at 98.6F.

• All living things use energy
• All living things contain cells
• All living things maintain homeostasis
• All living things grow

Green plants produce their own food through the process of photosynthesis.

• All living things use energy
• All living things contain cells
• All living things maintain homeostasis
• All living things grow

Over three years, Tim's height has increased from 5'4" to 5'11".

• All living things contain cells
• All living things maintain homeostasis
• All living things use energy
• All living things grow

The roots of a plant grow towards a source of ground water.

• All living things use energy
• All living things reproduce
• All living things respond to their environment
• All living things grow

YOU are a multi-celled organism but an amoeba is a single celled organism.

• All living things have cells
• All living things grow
• All living things use energy
• All living things respond to their environment

Living things are made up of units called

• DNA

• Cells

• Homeostasis

• Seeds

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

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

• one
• some
• all
• more than half

After eating, the pancreas releases a hormone called insulin to help the cells take in the sugar from the food to keep the blood stream at the appropriate sugar level. This is an example of ...

• all living things containing DNA.

• all living things maintaining homeostasis.

• all living things evolving.

• all living things reproducing.

Heliotropism is the seasonal motion of plant parts (flowers or leaves) to face their direction of the Sun. This is an example of ...

• all living things being made of cells.

• all living things maintaining homeostasis.

• all living things growing and developing.

• all living things responding to stimuli.