Characteristics of life Vocab

Organisms that can make their own food

• Autotroph

• Heterotroph

Organisms that cannot make their own food; needs to eat to obtain energy

• Autotroph

• Heterotroph

An idea that life can come from nonliving material

• Biotic

• Abiotic

• Spontaneous Generation

The process by which food is broken down into simple substances

• Metabolism

• Homeostasis

• Digestion

Something that was never living found naturally in nature.

• Biotic

• Abiotic

The sum of all chemical process or changes that occur in an organism.

• Metabolism

• Homeostasis

• Digestion

A form of reproduction that involves the joining of a male and female sex cell.

• Sexual reproduction

• Asexual reproduction

Something in the environment that causes a response or behavior.

• Response

• Data

• Stimulus

• Dormant

A living organism that is in a suspended state, like a seed.

• Metabolism

• Homeostasis

• Dormant

• Respiration

The basic unit of life in an organism - the smallest structure that can carry on life processes.

• Atom

• Molecule

• Cell

• Tissue