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Characteristics of Living Things

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 24mins

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Class
Date
1.

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

a)

All living things use energy

b)

All living things contain cells

c)

All living things maintain homeostasis

d)

All living things grow

2.

Green plants produce their own food through the process of photosynthesis

a)

All living things use energy

b)

All living things contain cells

c)

All living things maintain homeostasis

d)

All living things grow

3.

A baby bird hatches from its egg with both parents watching.

a)

All living things reproduce

b)

All living things maintain homeostasis

c)

All living things use energy

d)

All living things grow

4.

A camel has eyelashes that work to keep the dust and sand out of its eyes.

a)

All living things adapt to their environment

b)

All living things grow

c)

All living things have cells

d)

All living things use energy

5.

A caterpillar hibernates in a cocoon and emerges as a buttterfly

a)

All living things adapt to their environment

b)

All living things respond to their environment

c)

All living things use energy

d)

All living things grow

6.

A tulip opens in the morning at sunrise and closes in the evening at sunset.

a)

All living things have cells

b)

All living things respond to their environment

c)

All living things use energy

d)

All living things grow.

7.

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

a)

All living things grow

b)

All living things use energy

c)

All living things contain cells

d)

All living things maintain homeostasis

8.

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

a)

All living things use energy

b)

All living things respond to their environment

c)

All living things reproduce

d)

All living things grow

9.

Over many hundreds of years, a population of rabbits living in the woods adapt to its surrounding with brown fur.

a)

All living things use energy

b)

All living things grow

c)

All living things have cells

d)

All living things adapt to their enviornment

10.

Which option is living?

a)

Trees and leaves

b)

Rocks

c)

Lake

d)

Fire

11.

Something that has never shown the characteristics of life and never will:

a)

dormant

b)

nonliving

c)

living

d)

dead

12.

Organisms are born, they live, and eventually die.

a)

Reproduce

b)

Span of Life

c)

Develop

d)

Consume nutrients

13.

Make more of the same kind of organism.

a)

reproduce

b)

move

c)

grow

d)

consume nutrients

14.

Organisms eat in some way to survive.

a)

reproduce

b)

exchange gases

c)

move

d)

consume nutrients

15.

Breathing such as oxygen goes in and carbon dioxide goes out.

a)

consumes nutrients

b)

exchange gases

c)

grow

d)

respond to the environment

16.

Organism starts small and gets bigger and taller over time.

a)

move

b)

respond to environment

c)

grow

d)

reproduce

17.

Organism goes through changes/phases/stages as they age.

a)

grow

b)

develop

c)

span of life

d)

eliminate waste

18.

The bunny hops away from the fox.

a)

movement

b)

exchange gases

c)

respond to the environment

d)

grow

19.

The boy needs new shoes because his feet are not longer a size 5.

a)

grow

b)

move

c)

reproduce

d)

span of life

20.

Worms feed off of the living matter in the soil.

a)

reproduce

b)

exchange and eliminate

c)

consume nutrients

d)

respond to the environment