Q. There are ______________ characteristics of life.

Q. When you step out into the cold, your body shivers in order to keep its temperature at 98.6^oF.

Q. Green plants produce their own food through the process of photosynthesis.

Q. A baby song bird hatches from its egg with both parent songbirds watching.

Q. A pill bug (roly poly) eats a carrot.

Q. A camel has eyelashes that work to keep the dust and sand out of its eyes.

Q. A caterpillar hibernates in a cocoon and emerges as a butterfly.

Q. An amoeba is a unicellular organism. 

Q. A tulip opens in the morning at sunrise and closes in the evening at sunset.

Q. Over three years, Tim's height has increased from 5'4" to 5'11".

Q. A cat is an organism that has a respiratory system that contains lungs and a trachea.

Q. A sea worm drops its tail and the tail becomes a new worm.

Q. An adult hydra is producing its offspring through budding.

Q. The roots of a plant grow towards a source of ground water.

Q. Over many hundreds of years, a population of rabbits living in the woods adapts to its surrounding with brown fur.

Q. YOU are a multi-celled organism, but an amoeba is a single celled organism.

Q. Which DOES NOT explain the difference between asexual and sexual reproduction?

Q. The cells that are older, smaller, less complex, and do not contain a nucleus are _______________________.

Q. The maintenance of a stable internal environment to sustain life is __________________________.

Q. To be considered living, an organism needs to have ___________________ characteristic(s).