6.1 Flashcards
(21 cards)
Life functions
Processes that occur in all living things.
Organism
A living thing
Cell
The building block of living things
Respiration
Release the energy stored in food.
Transport
Move materials throughout the organism.
Nutrition
Take in substances and/or break down food into a form cells can use.
Synthesis
Manufacture new molecules.
Excretion
Eliminate waste materials produced by the organism.
Regulation
Respond to changes in the organism’s surroundings.
Locomotion
Move the organism from place to place.
Reproduction
Make more organisms of the same kind(offspring).
Growth
increase body size, replaced damaged cells or both.
Development
Change from a young organism into an adult.
Why do plants sometimes bend on a windowsill?
It’s because they are trying to get more sunlight on them.
What is similar with plants to humans?
Plants and humans need nutrition.They need to grow. It stores water or sunlight as humans do with food. Answers may also vary.
Several tomato plants are grown indoors next to a sunny window. The plants receive water and fertilizer and remain be in the windowsill. What most will happen?
The stems of the plant will bend toward the window.
Which life function releases energy stored in food?
Respiration
What process is associated with the process of excretion?
The organism eliminates wastes to its surroundings.
Which of the following life processes is not described correctly?
1. Transport: moving materials throughout the body.
2.Regulation: Responding to new changes.
3.Reproduction: Producing new individuals
4.nutrition: increase in body size
4 is wrong.
List three ways how different humans are to plants.
Answers may vary.
You are convincing a friend that a car is similar to humans. Identify 2 ways that we are similar to cars.
Answers may vary.
