8 Characteristics Of Living Things
This quiz will test your knowledge on whether you can correctly identify why some objects are considered living and others non-living.
- 1.
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of life?
- A.
Adaptation to environmental changes
- B.
Reproduction
- C.
Differentiation from cells to tissues
- D.
Complex chemical organization
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- 2.
Metabolism is the ____________.
- A.
sum total of all chemical reactions
- B.
Rate at which food is consumed
- C.
output of energy usually as heat
- D.
Way that an organism uses energy
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- 3.
When an organism loses homeostasis it is ____________.
- A.
Hibernating
- B.
Dormant
- C.
Dead
- D.
shivering
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- 4.
Which of the following is NOT among the basic characteristics shared by living things?
- A.
using energy
- B.
Responding to surroundings
- C.
Breathing
- D.
Growing
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- 5.
Through evolutionary processes, organisms can ____________.
- A.
eliminate their need for an energy source
- B.
Adapt to their environment
- C.
Stop the need to reproduce
- D.
eliminate their cell structure
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- 6.
Which of the following characteristics of a glass of water mean that it cannot be considered alive according to our shared characteristics of living things?
- A.
It has no cells.
- B.
It has no heart.
- C.
It has no tissues.
- D.
It has no arms or legs.
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- 7.
Humans share the characteristics of an opposable thumb, forward-looking eyes, and a well-developed brain with other ____________.
- A.
chordates
- B.
Mammals
- C.
primates
- D.
Vertebrates
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- 8.
Which of the following include organisms all of only one species?
- A.
ecosystem
- B.
population
- C.
kingdom
- D.
Community
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- 9.
Humans and all other mammals share which of the flowing characteristics?
- A.
Have mammary glands
- B.
Walk on two legs
- C.
give birth to live young as opposed to laying eggs
- D.
live on land
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- 10.
Which of the following groups is the largest and most diverse?
- A.
Species
- B.
Ecosystem
- C.
population
- D.
community
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