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WHAT ARE LIVING THINGS?
NAME:___________________TEACHER:_________DATE:____________
Word Bank
environment
fungi
organisms
protist
animals
five
grow
oxygen
reproduce
bacteria
food
micro-organisms
plants
waste
1) Living things need food, water, a place to live, and _______________to survive.
2) People, _______________, and _______________ are living things.
3) All living things are called _______________.
4) All organisms have _______________ basic life functions.
a. They use _______________ for energy.
b. They _______________ and develop.
c. They _______________ more of their kind.
d. They respond to their _______________.
e. They get rid of _______________.
Write the correct letter beside the vocabulary word. Match the cell organelle to it's correct
function.
5) ______ vacuole __
a) This is a jelly-like substance.
6) ______ chloroplast __
b) This makes the food for a plant cell.
7) ______ nucleus __
c) This controls the cell and acts like a brain.
8) ______ cytoplasm __
d) This is what burns the food for energy.
9) ______ mitochondria __
e) This organelle holds food, water, and waste.
10) ______ cell membrane __
f) This is the thin covering that lines the
inside of the cell wall in a plant.
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HOW DO WE CLASSIFY LIVING THINGS?
11) What is the correct order for classifying organisms?
a) phylum, kingdom, species, order, genus, family, class
b) kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species
c) species, genus, family, order, class, phylum, kingdom
d) kingdom, phylum, order, class, family, genus, species
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12) List the six kingdoms.
Match each word with its definition. Write the letter of the correct definition beside the
correct word.
13) ______ protist __
a) the smallest one-celled organism
14) ______ trait __
b) a group of organisms with some members
that make their own food (algae) and some
15) ______ bacteria __
that eat other organisms to live
16) ______ fungi __
(paramecia).
17) ______ kingdom __
c) the largest group into which organisms can
be classified
d) a characteristic of a living thing used to
identify and classify it
e) organism that is made up of cells with a cell
wall and nucleus, but without chloroplast
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18) One-celled organisms are called _______________.
19) Kingdoms that include organisms made up of one cell are _______________, _________
______, and _______________.
20) Compare and contrast plants with fungi.