| A | B |
|---|
| Organisms | Living things |
| Life Functions | Processes or activities, common to all living things |
| Nutrition | The life processess in which the organism obtains (gets) and processes food |
| Ingestion | The way food is taken into an organism from its environment |
| Digestion | The process that changes food into a form that can be used by the cell |
| Excretion | The removal of waste materials produced in the cells as a result of life activities |
| Stimulus | A change in the internal or external environment |
| Growth | An increase in the size and/or number of cells of an organism |
| Locomotion | The process of moving from place to place |
| Reproduction | The production (making) of new organisms or cells |
| Metabolism | The sum total of all the life processes taking pace in an organism |
| Homeostasis | The maintenance of a stable internal (inside) environment in spite of changes in the external (outside) environment |
