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Living Things
Living Things-Section 2
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Science
6th Grade
12/09/2007

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What are the 5 characteristics of living things?

Definition

1.Living things are organized (made of cells)

 

2. Living things use energy

 

3. Living things respond to their surroundings

 

4. Living things grow and develop

 

5. Living things reproduce

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What are cells?

Definition

Cells are the smallest unit of life that still carry on life functions.

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What is homeostasis?
Definition

The ability to maintain the proper conditions needed for life.

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What do living things need?
Definition

1. A place to live

 

and

 

2. Raw materials

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What are adaptations?
Definition

A trait of a living thing that helps it live in its environment.

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What is the environment?
Definition

Everything that surrounds a living thing.

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What is behavior?
Definition

Ways in which living things respond to stimuli.

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What is hibernation?
Definition

The inactive state of some animals during winter months.

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What is migration?
Definition

Movement of animals from one living place to another.

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What is a stimulus?
Definition

A change that causes a response.

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What is instinct?
Definition

A behavior that an organism is born with.

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What is learned behavior?
Definition

A behavior that an organism is taught.

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What are life processes?
Definition

The things an organism must do to stay alive.

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What is digestion?
Definition

The process of breaking down food so that it can be used by living things.

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What is excretion?

Definition

The process of getting rid of waste.

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What is ingestion?
Definition

The process of taking in food.

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What is respiration?
Definition

The process of getting energy from food.

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What is transport?
Definition

The process of moving nutrients and waste in a living thing.

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What is nutrition?
Definition

Ingestion + digestion = nutrition

Term

 

Name 2 human adaptations.

Definition

1)Flexible thumb

 

2)The ability to change our environment

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