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| movement | the changing of position relative to a fixed point |
| locomotion | movement from place to place using one's own power |
| growth | an increase in the size of an organism |
| development | the series of changes through which an organism goes through as it grows and matures; an organism's life cycle |
| metabolism | all the chemical and physical processes in an organism in which energy is made, used, and stored |
| What four processes make up the energy producing and energy using processes of metabolism? | ingestion, digestion, excretion, and respiration |
| response | an action or movement caused by a stimulus; that is, how an organism reacts to a stimulus |
| stimulus | any change or signal in an organism's environment that causes the organism to react (respond) |
| reproduction | the process by which living things give rise to (produce) more organisms like themselves |
| adaptation | a characteristic (trait), structure, or behavioral change that increases an organism's chance of survival by enabling it to successively live and reproduce in its environment |
| cell | the basic unit of structure and function in living things that can perform all the processes associated with life |
| energy | the ability to do work or cause change |
