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AWF Sci Unit 1
Unit One of 7th grade science
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| classify | to sort things by their characteristics |
| organism | a living thing |
| taxonomy | the practice of naming organisms and classifying them into groups |
| dicotomous key | a tool to classify organisms by choosing their characteristics from a series of paired statements |
| kingdom | the highest level of organization |
| species | the lowest level of classification |
| eukaryotic | cells with a nucleus |
| prokarbotic | cells without a nucleus |
| unicellular | organisms made up of only one cell |
| multicellular | organisms made up of more than one cell |
| autotrophs | an organism that is able to make its own food |
| heterotrophs | an organism that must take in food |
| homeostasis | the maintaining of stable internal conditions by an organism |
| cell | the basic unit of living things |
| stimulus | a change in an organism's surroundings that causes it to react |
| response | an action or change in behavior caused by a stimulus |
| development | the process of change that causes an organism to become more complex |
| reproduction | the process where organisms produce off spring that are similar to the parents |
| binomial nomenclature | a naming system where every organism is given a two-part name |
| scientific name | the name given to an organism based on the genus to which it belongs and its species name |