Living things in the biosphere vocab part 1

any living thing

• organism

• cell

• spontaneous generation

• homeostasis

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NGSS.MS-LS1-1

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

NGSS.MS-LS1-3

The basic unit of structure and function in living things.

• Organism

• cell

• electron

• atom

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NGSS.MS-LS1-1

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

Made of a single cell.

• unicellular

• multicellular

• consumer

• heterotroph

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NGSS.MS-LS1-1

Consisting of many cells.

• Unicellular

• Multicellular

• Consumer

• Heterotroph

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NGSS.MS-LS1-1

NGSS.MS-LS1-3

Any change or signal in the environment that can make an organism react in some way.

• stimulus

• response

• spontaneous generation

• homeostasis

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NGSS.MS-LS1-8

An action or change in behavior that occurs as a result of a stimulus.

• stimulus

• response

• spontaneous generation

• homeostasis

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NGSS.MS-LS1-8

The mistaken idea that living things arise from nonliving sources.

• stimulus

• response

• spontaneous generation

• homeostasis

The condition in which an organism’s internal environment is kept stable in spite of changes in the external environment.

• stimulus

• response

• spontaneous generation

• homeostasis

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NGSS.HS-LS1-3

A group of similar organisms that can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce.

• species

• genus

• classification

• binomial nomenclature

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

The process of grouping things based on their similarities.

• species

• classification

• genus

• taxonomy