This is a process by which living organisms get rid of waste substances.
Excretion
What do you call the change in the environment that causes a change in the activity of an organism
Stimulus
TRUE or FALSE: Living organisms increase. Their size and weight grow.
False. Living organisms grow. Their size and weight increase.
Give at least two examples of autotrophs.
Plants, lichens, and algae
Define organic nutrients. Give examples.
Complex substances (Carbohydrates, fats and protein) generated by living organisms.
This type of reproduction allows an organism produces new living organisms that are identical to it.
Asexual Reproduction
Give at least three characteristics of living organisms
To reproduce, grow and develop, obtain matter from the environment and use energy, and respond to stimuli, whether internal or coming from the environment
Give five examples of heterotrophs.
Animals, fungi, bacteria, humans and protozoa
These are substances an organism needs to be able to maintain life.
Nutrients
It is the process by which the body takes in and uses food, esp. food that it needs to stay healthy, or the scientific study of this process.
Nutrition
TRUE or FALSE: All living organisms are produced by the reproduction of other living organisms.
True
The process through which an organism creates new organisms identical or almost identical to it.
Reproduction
This type of reproduction allows two compatible organisms cooperate in order to produce new living organisms that will share traits of both parents.
Sexual Reproduction
TRUE or FALSE. Plants are heterotrophic organisms.
Plants are autotrophic organisms.
TRUE or FALSE. Living organisms don't have the ability to detect changes in their surrounding environment and to respond to them.
False
Pupils shrink when sudden bright light is beamed into the eye. The light is an example of a (1) stimulus or (2) response.
Stimulus
What do you call the reaction of an organism to a stimulus?
Response
TRUE or FALSE: For an organism to be considered a living thing, it must have ALL the characteristics of life.
True
It is the change of form or structure in an individual after hatching or birth
Metamorphosis
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