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WorksheetsCharacteristics of LIFE
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 21mins
Maintaining a stable internal
environment is called
homeostasis
equilibrium
balance
evenness
Green plants produce their own food through the process of photosynthesis. Which characteristic of life does this represent?
All living things use energy
All living things contain cells
All living things maintain homeostasis
All living things grow
A baby song bird hatches from its egg with both parent songbirds watching. Which characteristic of life does this represent?
All living things reproduce
All living things maintain homeostasis
All living things use energy
All living things grow
A camel has eyelashes that work to keep the dust and sand out of its eyes. Which characteristic of life does this represent?
All living things adapt to their environment
All living things grow
All living things have cells
All living things use energy
Over many hundreds of years, a population of rabbits living in the woods adapts to its surrounding with brown fur. Which characteristic of life does this represent?
All living things adapt to their environment
All living things grow
All living things use energy
All living things have cells
Living things are based on a universal genetic
code. What molecule is responsible for that code?
RNA
Lipid
Protein
DNA
Identify the characteristic: a caterpillar hibernates in a cocoon and emerges as a butterfly.
All living things adapt to their environment
All living things use energy
All living things respond to their environment
All living things grow and develop
A pet goldfish needs fish food.
Which characteristic of life does this refer to?
Living things need energy
Living things are composed of one or more cells
Living things respond to their environment
Living things grow and reproduce
Living things maintain a stable internal environment
Which option is living?
Trees and leaves
Rocks
Lake
Fire
Movement is a good way to determine if something is living.
True
False
All of the following are characteristics of all living things EXCEPT
Respond to stimulus
Grow and develop
Made of cells
Movement
Fire has 6 of the 8 characteristics of life, which means it is living.
True
False
Something that has never shown the characteristics of life and never will:
dormant
nonliving
living
dead
Once performed all 8 characteristics of life, but no longer does
nonliving
living
dormant
dead
Organism is living, but in a resting or inactive state. It will perform the 8 characteristics of life under the right conditions.
living
nonliving
dead
dormant
A living thing that is made of two or more cells
unicellular
specialized
multicellular
homeostasis
