Characteristics and Classification of Life

Question 1

What is movement

Answer 1

The ability of organisms to change position or move from one place to another.
Movement can be in some parts of the orgnanism

Question 2

Define reproduction

Answer 2

The ability of organisms to make more of themselves or offspring

Question 3

Describe sensitivity

Answer 3

The ability of an organism to detect changes in its enviroment and respond to them.
The ability of an organism to detect stimuli

Question 4

What is growth?

Answer 4

-Ability of an organism to make more cells
-Growth is a permanet increase in cell size and number

Question 5

Define repriation

Answer 5

-The process by which energy is released from food
-It takes place in the mitochondria

Question 6

Describe exretion

Answer 6

Excretion
-The removal of toxic waste and substances in excess such as salt and water.
-We exrete in three ways.
The lungs excrete carbon dioxide
The kidneys filter out waste and toxic substances
The skin excretes salt through sweating

Question 7

What is nutrition

Answer 7

-The ability of organisms to take nutrions
-The ability of organisms to feed
-The food that organisms take in used for energy, for growth and for tissue repair
-Plants make their own food by the process of photosysthesis