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Living Things Review Sheet (Pg. 14-26 and 545-551)
Things to Know:
1. What are the characteristics of living things?
2. What are the basic needs of living things
3. Louis Pasteur….what did he find?
4. What is the difference between spontaneous generation and biogenesis?
5. Definitions of the following:
i. Organisms
ii. Cell
iii. Unicellular
iv. Multicellular
v. Stimulus
vi. Response
vii. Autotrophs
viii. Heterotrophs
ix. Homeostasis
6. Miller and Urey’s experiment and what the results were (bottom of pg.20)
7. Why we need to classify
8. What Aristotle and Linnaeus did to contribute to modern classification
9. Name the seven levels of classification from broadest to most specific.
10.
What is used to organize organisms into a taxonomic key? (What
do scientists look at?)
11.
What is a scientific name, how it is written, and what language it is
written in?
12.
Definitions of the following:
i. Classification
ii. Taxonomy
iii. Binomial nomenclature
iv. Species
v. Genus
vi. Taxonomic Key
13.
Names of the six kingdoms
14.
All characteristics of each of the six kingdoms (see the table you
completed in class)
15.
Which kingdoms are autotrophic or heterotrophic
16.
Which kingdoms are unicellular or multicellular
17.
Which kingdoms are prokaryotes or eukaryotes
18.
Definitions of the following:
i. Prokaryotes
ii. Eukaryotes
iii. Nucleus
19.
Explain how sedimentary rocks are formed and how we can
determine which the oldest are.
20.
Give some examples of sedimentary rock and explain their
importance in better understanding the history of living things.