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Living Things
living things
Term | Definition |
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What do living things NEED to stay alive? | Food, air, water, and proper temperature |
carbon dioxide | A gas in the air plants need this to make their own food |
food | Provides organisms with energy animals take in food from the outside plants make their own food |
air | Mixture of oxygen and carbon dioxide |
environment | The surroundings of living things that provides organisms with all the things they need to stay alive. Made up of living and non living things |
organism | any living thing |
movement | Going from one place to another |
reproduction | Producing new plants or animals |
sensitivity | How things react and respond to what is happening around them |
nutrition | Taking in food |
excretion | getting rid of waste substances |
respiration | making energy to keep you active |
growth | cells multiplying and growing |
7 Characteristics of Life | Movement, Reproduction, Sensitivity, Nutrition, Excretion, Respiration, and Growth |
respond | to act or do something because of a change in the environment |
stimulus | a change in environment that makes a living thing respond |
protozoa | microscopic animals |
paramecium | one of the protozoa shaped like a slipper |
ameba | protozoa that does not have a definite shape |
cells | basic unit of all living things |
stomates | little tiny openings in plants leaves that allows them to take in oxygen |
anaerobic | living things that don’t need air |
aerobic | Living things that need air |
producers | organisms that make the food that other organisms depend on. Algae- plants that are the main producers in lakes,oceans and pools. |
Algae | plants that are the main producers in lakes,oceans and pools. |
consumers | living things that search for their own food |
carnivore | living things that only eat meat |
herbivore | living things that eat only plant |
omnivore | living things that eat both plants and meat |