1. Characteristics of Life Vocabulary
What makes something living or nonliving?

2. Adaptation
The adjustment or changes in behavior, physiology, and structure of an organism to become more suited to an environment.
Example: Rock Pocket Mouse

3. Energy (1) The capacity for work.
(2) The ability to do work, or produce change.
Example: In biology, energy is often stored by cells in biomolecules, like carbohydrates (sugars) and lipids. The energy is released when these molecules have been oxidized during cellular respiration. The energy released from them when they are oxidized during cellular respiration is carried and transported by an energy-carrier molecule called ATP

4. Homeostasis
Definition: the tendency toward a relatively stable equilibrium between interdependent elements, especially as maintained by physiological processes.
Example: Temperature control, blood sugar, heart rate

5. Organism
Definition: an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form.
Example: Human, Dog, Cat, Otter, Llama

6. Stimulus & Response Stimulus Definition: Response
A detectable change in the internal or external environment that influences or causes a temporary increase of physiological activity or response in the whole organism or in any of its parts.
Response
Definition:
Biology. any behavior of a living organism that results from an external or internal stimulus.

7. Development
the progressive changes in size, shape, and function during the life of an organism by which its genetic potentials (genotype) are translated into functioning mature systems (phenotype).

8. Growth
the process of increasing in physical size, shape, or mass.

9. Biology
Definition:
The study of life

10. Cell
The cell (from Latin cella, meaning "small room") is the basic structural, functional, and biological unit of all known living organisms.
A cell is the smallest unit of life that can replicate independently, and cells are often called the "building blocks of life"