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| Biotic or Organic | Living things or were once alive) (ex. plants, animals, bacteria, dead leaves, dead snake) |
| Abiotic or Inorganic | nonliving things (never alive) (ex. soil, air, water, temperature, sunlight, rocks) |
| Life Processes | All living things do all of these (see life processes sheet) |
| Cells | basic units of structure (how built) and functions (how it works) of living things. |
| Cell Theory | 1. All living things are made up of cells. 2. Cells are the basic units of structure and function in living things. 3. Living cells come only from other living cells |
| Metabolism | the sum of all the building up and breaking down activities that occur in a living cell/ organism |
| Tissue | Cells similar in structure and function that are joined together (ex. muscle tissue, nerve tissue). |
| Organs | Groups of tissues working together (heart, lungs, kidney) |
| Organ Systems | Groups of organs that work together to perform certain functions (ex. senses, brain, spinal cord, nerves-nervous system) |
| Organism | Living thing. Can be made of one cell (unicellular) or multicellular. Highest level of organization of a living thing. |
| Homeostasis | Ability of an organism to keep conditions inside its body the same, even though conditions outside its body change. Ex. Our body temperatures remains about 98.6 degrees Farenheit, even though the temperature outside may be only 50 degrees. |
| Classification | Grouping things according to similar characteristics such as structures, behaviors, etc. (Ex. of structures - hair, feathers, internal chemical makeup. Ex. of behavior - fly south for the winter, live in water.) |
| Five Kingdoms | All living things are put into one of these categories: Plants, Animals, Protists, Monera, Fungi |
| Plants | make own food (autotrophs); contain chlorophyll (green substance used to convert light energy to food energy). |
| Animals | Multicellular; Can't make own food (heterotrophs) |
| Protists | most unicellular organisms with a nucleus (control center of the cell) (Ex. paramecium, ameoba) |
| Monera | Unicellular, but do NOT contain a nucleus (ex. bacteria and one kind of blue-green algae). |
| Fungi | share many characteristics of plants, but do NOT have chlorophyll so cannot make own food (Ex. mushrooms, mold, puff balls, yeast) |
| Scientific Name | All living things are given a Latin name made of 2 words, their genus and species (Ex. Dog-Canis domesticus, Wolf-Canis Lupus, Dandelion-Taraxicum officinale). |
| All living things are classified according to 7 major groups | Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species (Keep Ponds Clean Or Fish Get Sick) |
