Question | Answer |
What is a stimulus? | A change causes a response. |
What is homeostasis? | maintenance of a stable internal environment |
What is asexual reproduction? | one parent produces offspring |
What is sexual reproduction? | requires 2 parents to produce offspring |
What does DNA do? | determines the genetic traits of an organism |
What does heredity mean? | characterisitcs passed from one to another generation |
What is metabolism? | the sum of all cellular processes in an organism |
Living things grow and _______ . | develop |
Food provides organisms with what? | energy and raw materials |
What is a cell? | basic unit of structure and function in an organism |
What type organisms are called producers? | organisms that make their own food |
What type organisms are called consumers? | Organisms that must eat other organisms to get food. |
What are the basic necessities of life? | food, water, air, and a place to live |
Your body is made mostly of ________. | water |
Living things use oxygen in what chemical process? | The process that releases energy form food. |
All living things share 6 common __________. | characteristics |
Chemicals, lights, sounds, and tastes are example of _________. | stimuli |
What type of reproduction do most animals use? | sexual |
Children resemble their parents because of ________. | heredity |
Some consumers get their food from dead organisms. What are these organisms called? | decomposers |