Living Things and Lab Safety Test

Which term refers to the ability of living things to react to changes in their environment?

• responsiveness

• awareness

• sensitivity

• adaptability

What are the basic needs of living things?

• food, water, shelter, and sunlight.

• food, water, shelter, and love.

• food, water, shelter, and money.

• food, water, shelter, and air

What is the process by which living things make their own food?

• respiration

• photosynthesis

• digestion

• excretion

What is the term for organisms that can produce their own food?

• autotrophs

• parasites

• decomposers

• heterotrophs

What is the term for organisms that obtain their food by consuming other organisms?

• photosynthesizers

• producers

• autotrophs

• heterotrophs

What is the term for the belief that living things can arise from non-living matter?

• spontaneous generation

• exogenesis

• abiogenesis

• biogenesis

What is the term for the process of living things producing offspring of the same kind?

• reproduction

• evolution

• adaptation

• mutation

What is the term for the process of living things growing and developing over time?

• growth and development

• metamorphosis

• evolution

• reproduction

What is the term for the process of living things reproducing to create new individuals?

• reproduction

• growth

• fertilization

• metabolism

Which of the following use energy, grow, reproduce, and respond to their environment?

• all living things

• only animals

• only plants

• all nonliving things