Characteristics of living things | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

What process helped giraffes develop long necks for reaching food over generations?

adaptation

What process helps both lizards bask in the sun and humans sweat to maintain stable body conditions?

homeostasis

What process do both humans and mushrooms use to break down food for energy?

respiration

What do plants start as before growing?

seed

What is a bacterium that has divided into two called?

clone, asexual reproduction

What term describes the process of making energy in cells?

metabolism

What process allows organisms to adjust and survive in their environment?

Adaptation

What do dogs produce more of when they smell food?

saliva

What is the plural form of stimulus?

stimuli

What do living things use for life functions?

energy

What type of reproduction requires genetic material from two parents?

sexual

What term describes changes in species over time?

evolution

what type of reproduction involves cloning?

asexual reproduction

what do living things maintain for stability?

homeostasis

what do all living things respond to?

stimuli

the ability of an organism to make more of the same type of organism

reproduction

The ... is the smallest unit of life

cell

Unicellular organisms are made up of ......

only one cell

Is rock a living thing? Why not?

NO, because it is not made up of organic molecules, it does not have cells, etc.

Grisha ate a sandwich. Food gives him some...

energy

The process of plants making its own food is ....

photosynthesis

Mr T jumped in the middle of the classroom and you screamed. Which of them is a response?

You screamed

Mr T jumped in the middle of the classroom and you screamed. Which of them is a stimulus?

Mr T jumping

the molecule inside the cells that has genetic information

DNA