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Lesson 1 Vocab
What Makes An Organism Alive Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Organism | Any Living Thing |
| Consumer | Eat other organisms for food |
| Scavenger | Eat dead and decaying materials |
| Decomposer | Break down and absorb dead and decaying materials |
| Producers | Produce their own food using photosynthesis |
| Stimulus | An event that causes a change in an organism |
| Homeostasis | The tendency for an organism to maintain an equilibrium |
| Cell | Smallest unit of life |
| Eukaryotic | Cells that have a nucleus |
| Prokaryotic | Cells without a nucleus |
| Unicellular | Only one cell |
| Multicellular | Two or more cells |
| Asexual Reproduction | Only need one organism |
| Sexual Reproduction | Need two organisms |