Characteristics of Life Notes
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
Help!
|
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| an organism is... | any living thing
🗑
|
||||
| what makes a living thing living | cells, reproduction, oxygen, carbon, water, needs to eat (energy), sunlight, breathing.
🗑
|
||||
| cells | -cells are the smallest unit of all life processes.
- unicellular/multicellular
l l
-prokaryote / eukaryote
🗑
|
||||
| reproduction | -make more of own kind
-parents or parent cells
- biogenesis- life comes from life
🗑
|
||||
| life span/ develop and grow | -birth
-growth
-maturity
-decline
-death
🗑
|
||||
| metabolism | -the sum of all chemical reactions in an organism
-requires energy
-plants get energy from sun
-make own food, autotrophs
-animals get energy from food eaten
- cannot make own food, heterotrops
🗑
|
||||
| homeostasis | -stabailizing internal conditions regardless of external environment
-adaptions
🗑
|
||||
| adapt to change/respond to stimuli | -stimulus
*scream
-response
* jump
🗑
|
||||
| pass characteristics on to offspring | heredity- passing on traits from parent to offspring
gene- basic unit of heredity
mutation- change
*helpful
*harmful
🗑
|
||||
| adapt and evolve | adaption- short term changes in individuals
evolution- long term changes in a species
natural selection- (charles darwin)\
*more favorable traits
*pass along to offspring
*species
🗑
|
||||
| interdependence | - all organisms interact in a community
-ecology
*organisms "biotic"
*environment "abiotic"
- food chains/ food webs.
🗑
|
Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Created by:
Kaitlyn.1413
Popular Biology sets