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6th Grade Ch 1
Ch 1 Sections 2 & 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Characteristics of living organisms | obtain and use energy, respond to stimuli, reproduce, and grow and develop |
| Required resources for life | food, oxygen, and water |
| autotrophs | make their own food for energy (plants) |
| heterotrophs | cannot make their own food (animals) |
| respiration | the process by which energy is released from food |
| stimulus | any change in an organism’s surroundings that will cause the organism to react. |
| response | The reaction to a stimulus |
| examples of environmental stimuli | amount of light, changes in temperature, sound, amount of water, space, amounts and types of food. |
| Asexual reproduction | a reproductive process that involves only one parent and produces offspring that is identical to the parent. |
| Sexual reproduction | a reproductive process that involves two parents that produce offspring that are different from both parents. |
| female reproductive cell | egg |
| male reproductive cell | sperm |
| Growth | the process whereby an organism becomes larger. |
| Development | the process that occurs in the life of the organism that results in the organism becoming more complex structurally. |
| Organisms require _____ to grow and develop. | energy |
| taxonomy | The study of how scientists classify organisms |
| An organism is placed into a broad group and is then placed into more specific groups based its ______ | structures |
| The levels of classification | kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species. |
| The more classification levels an organism shares with another, the more ____ they have in common. | characteristics |
| The 5 Kingdoms | Plants, Animals, Fungi, Protists, Monerans |
| Organisms are placed into kingdoms based on their ability to ____ ______ and the number of _____ in their body. | make food; cells |
| _____ are normally divided into two groups: vascular and nonvascular. | Plants |
| The Animal Kingdom is divided into ___ different phyla. | 35 |
| The Animal Kingdom is divided into two groups | vertebrates and invertebrates. |
| species | organisms of the same type which are able to breed and produce young of the same kind. |
| The scientific name of an organism is made up of its ____ and ____. | genus and species |
| When writing a scientific name the _____ name is capitalized. | genus |
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Ms. Phillips
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