Bell Ringer 8/19/2025

____________ is the scientific study of life and living organisms. It encompasses the study of their physical structure, chemical processes, molecular interactions, developmental mechanisms, evolution, and interactions with the environment. 

• Biology

• Organism

• Growth

• Species

Organism

• science of life; examines how living things interact, how systems function, and how they function at a molecular level

• anything that has or once had all the characteristics of life.

• orderly structure shown by living things.

• process that results in mass being added to an organism; may include formation of new cells and new structures.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS1-7

Organization is - orderly structure shown by living things.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

NGSS.MS-LS1-3

The process that results in mass being added to an organism; may include formation of new cells and new structures.

• Development

• Growth

• Biology

• Reproduction

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS1-7

Reproduction is production of offspring.

• True

• False

Species are single organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring (biological species concept).

• True

• False

Any change in an organism’s internal or external environment that causes the organism to react,

• Species

• Development

• Stimulus

• Cell

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Development is changes an organism undergoes in its lifetime before reaching its adult form.

• True

• False

A organism’s reaction to a stimulus.

• Adaptation

• Stimulus

• Climate

• Response

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

Adaptation is inherited characteristic of a species that develops over time in response to an environmental factor, enabling the species to survive.

• Ture

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4