Characteristics of Life
Review Game
Biology 1
What is the smallest unit that can
carry out all the activities of life?
 Which type of reproduction results in genetic variation?
 What is another name for a consumer?
 Give an example of how you respond to your
environment.
 The maintenance of internal balance or equilibrium
despite fluctuations in the external environment is
known as?
 Draw the lifespan of an organism.
 Please include the correct labels.
 The sum total of all the chemical reactions occurring in
an organism is known as?
 The ultimate source of energy on Planet Earth comes
from?
Please give an example of a
multicellular organism.
 Why do organisms reproduce?
 What are the levels of organization in living things
starting from smallest to largest?
 What is a catabolic reaction? Your response must touch
upon the following points
 Energy
 Bonds
 Size of molecules created
 Compare a muscle cell found in a human and an
elephant.
 The muscle cell in the elephant is( larger, smaller, the
same size) as a human muscle cell?
 How can you then account for the elephant’s larger size?
 An organism that is capable of making its own food
directly from the sun or from chemicals in its
environment is known as?
 Give an example of a unicellular organism
 What is a stimulus?
 What is the definition of a tissue?
 What is the difference between biogenesis and
abiogenesis?
 What is the definition of reproduction?
 What are the categories used to describe how organisms
obtain and use energy?
 What is the relationship between metabolism, anabolism
and catabolism?
 What is a producer also known as?
 What is needed for growth, development, and repair to
occur?
 Do organisms require a high or low irritability and
WHY?
 Why do organisms respond to their environment?
 Evolution occurs at what level? (i.e. –can individual
organisms evolve?)
 Draw a visual to represent asexual reproduction.
 All the stages that an organism goes through from birth
until death is known as?
 Is responding to the environment the same thing as an
organism adapting? Please explain.
 Can individual organisms adapt to their environment?
Why or why not?
 Photosynthesis would be an example of what type of
reaction (Anabolic or Catabolic)?
 Reproduction is essential to….?
 Give an example of an organism responding to its
environment. Please provide the stimulus and the
response.
 What is a genetic change in a species over a VERY long
period of time called?