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Basic Characteristics of Living Things

Total questions: 44

Worksheet time: 44mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Characteristic: Cells are the basic structure of all living things. Cells are organized to form tissues, tissues into organ, organ into system. Each unit of the organ system perform definite functions. Each function is dynamically coordinated with other units to perform a normal life.

(a)  

2.

Body System — Hormones dictate our mood.

(a)  

3.

Body System — Body's communication network.

(a)  

4.

Body System — Circulate blood around the body for oxygen and nutrients for energy.

(a)  

5.

Atom+Atom

(a)  

6.

Molecules+Molecules

(a)  

7.

Compound+Compound

(a)  

8.

Scattered inside the nucleus.

(a)  

9.

Genetic materials that are ready to ensure the proper distribution of genetic information during cell division.

(a)  

10.

A group of structurally and functionally similar cells, and the material between them, that work together to perform a specific function.

(a)  

11.

Totality of a Reaction

(a)  

12.

Characteristic: Sum of all chemical/reaction that takes place inside the living thing. Organisms get food, water, and gases from the environment, which are transformed inside the body into energy that is needed in performing life processes.

(a)  

13.

Type of Metabolism: Is the constructive process that builds complex molecules from simpler ones, requiring energy

(a)  

14.

Type of Metabolism: Is the destructive process that breaks down complex molecules into simpler ones, releasing energy.

(a)  

15.

Scientific term for chewing.

(a)  

16.

The biological process in which female germ cells, or oogonia, differentiate into a mature ovum (egg cell) capable of being fertilized.

(a)  

17.

The biological process by which spermatozoa (sperm cells) are produced in the male gonads (testes) through cell division and differentiation.

(a)  

18.

Final absorption.

(a)  

19.

Absorption of water(upward).

(a)  

20.

Stomata of a leaf(downward) exchange of gases facilitate.

(a)  

21.

Medical term of mouth.

(a)  

22.

Characteristic: All organisms manifest growth and development by growing in size and shape. Plants and animals grow by development from within hence called intussusception. Non-living things increased in size by external addition, hence called accretion.

(a)  

23.

Plant: (a)   -longitudinal(height)

24.

Plant: (a)   -radial(radius/width)

25.

Characteristic: Ability to replicate themselves is exhibited by all kind of organism.

(a)  

26.

Characteristic: All organism can respond to a stimuli in their environment. This attribute is termed as irritability.

(a)  

27.

All organisms are capable of (a)   , this transferring from one place to another.

28.

Characteristic: All organism have units of information packaged in their cells, turned as genetic material(DNA).

(a)  

29.

VARIETY of living organisms in an ecosystem and how they act together.

(a)  

30.

Science of life. Study of living things.

(a)  

31.

Beyond reality.

(a)  

32.

Fundamental unit of life.

(a)  

33.

Simplest unit of matter that is ALIVE.

(a)  

34.

Systemized body of knowledge gained through observation and experimentation.

(a)  

35.

Long threads floating inside the nucleus.

(a)  

36.

Genetic materials suffle inside the nucleus.

(a)  

37.

Scientific name for sperm cell(plural).

(a)  

38.

Scientific name for egg cell(plural).

(a)  

39.

Scientific name for kidney.

(a)  

40.

Master gland of the Endocrine system.

(a)  

41.

An organism's ability to maintain a stable internal environment within a narrow, healthy range, despite changes in the external or internal environment.

(a)  

42.

How energy is manufactured and utilized.

(a)  

43.

Generation to generation. Cycle to cycle.

(a)  

44.

In plants, which transport substances like sugars throughout the plant.

(a)