1. Characteristics Of Living Things
Science Quiz
Characteristics Of Living Things

3. Rules
You must wait until the entire question is read aloud before you try to answer.
If you try to answer and you get the question correct, then your team receives however many points the question was worth. If you answer incorrectly, then your team loses however many points the question was worth.
If you select a “Double Up!!!” category, only your team may answer. You may risk as many points as your team has accrued, but if you answer incorrectly, your wagered amount will be deducted from your score. If you do not have any points, or have a negative score, then the question is for the assigned amounts of points, and anyone can attempt to answer it

4. Rules (continued)
Once all categories and point amounts have been used on the main board, all teams with positive scores move on to the “Final Question”. The same rules apply about wagering points as in “Double Up!!!”.
Once you attempt to answer, you will have 1 minute to complete your answer.
The teacher is the judge, and has final say in all matters pertaining to this game.

5. 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 Miscellaneous Vocabulary
Characteristics of All Organisms
Needs of All Organisms
Spontaneous Generation
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6. Vocabulary 100
This is the term that means “a living thing”.

7. Answer Vocabulary 100
What is an organism?
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8. Vocabulary 200
This word means an “organism that is made of only one cell”.

9. Answer Vocabulary 200
What is unicellular?
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10. Vocabulary 300
This word means “an organism that is made of more than one cell”.

11. Answer Vocabulary 300
What is multicellular?
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12. Vocabulary 400
This is the definition of autotroph.

13. Answer Vocabulary 400
What is “an organism that can make its own food”?
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14. Vocabulary 500
This is the definition of heterotroph.

15. Answer Vocabulary 500
What is, “an organism that must eat other organisms for energy”?
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16. Vocabulary 600
This is the definition of the theory of spontaneous generation.

17. Answer Vocabulary 600
What is, “the mistaken idea that living things come from nonliving sources”?
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18. DAILY DOUBLE
DAILY DOUBLE

19. How many of your team’s points do you wish to wager?
Vocabulary 700
This is the definition of development.
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20. Answer Vocabulary 700 What is, “becoming more complex over time”?
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21. Vocabulary 800
This is the definition of homeostasis.

22. Answer Vocabulary 800
What is, “maintaining stable internal conditions”?
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23. Characteristics 100
All organisms—whether they are autotrophs or heterotrophs--use energy from this source.

24. Answer Characteristics 100
What is food?
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25. Characteristics 200
This characteristic of all living things is taken care of either sexually or asexually.

26. Answer Characteristics 200
What is reproduction?
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27. Characteristics 300
This is what all living things are made of.

28. Answer Characteristics 300
What are cells?
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29. Characteristics 400
This is an example of a stimulus and response of a plant.

30. Answer Characteristics 400
Ex. What is a plant bending toward sunlight?
Other answers are acceptable.
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31. Characteristics 500
This is the difference between growth and development.

32. Answer Characteristics 500
What is, “growth is getting bigger, but development is becoming more complex”?
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33. Characteristics 600
This is an example of development.

34. Answer Characteristics 600
What is a tadpole turning into a frog; a caterpillar/butterfly; production of different types of cells; brain development; etc..
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35. Characteristics 700
These are two building materials of cells.

36. Answer Characteristics 700
What are lipids and proteins?
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37. Characteristics 800
These are the five chemicals that all living things have in common.

38. Answer Characteristics 800
What are water, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, proteins, & lipids?
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39. Needs 100
These are the four needs of all living things.

40. Answer Needs 100
What are energy (food), water, living space, and stable internal conditions?
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41. Needs 200
This is what will happen if all of an organism’s basic needs are not met.

42. Answer Needs 200
What is, “it will die”?
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43. Needs 300
These are what an organism’s living space provides.

44. Answer Needs 300
What are, “a place to get food, water, & find shelter”?
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45. Needs 400
Because living space is limited, organisms may do this.

46. Answer Needs 400
What is compete for it?
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47. Needs 500
This is what “auto” means, what “hetero” means, and what “troph” means.

48. Answer Needs 500 What are, “self”, “other”, and “feeder”?
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49. Needs 600
This is why organisms need to maintain homeostasis.

50. Answer Needs 600
What is, “because conditions in their surroundings are constantly changing”?
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51. Needs 700
This is the property that makes water vital to all living things.

52. Answer Needs 700
What is, “its ability to dissolve more chemicals than any other substance on Earth”?
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53. Needs 800
These are the three things that most autotrophs need to make food.

54. Answer Needs 800 What are sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water?
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55. SG 100
This is whether or not the theory of spontaneous generation is true or false.

56. Answer SG 100
What is false?
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57. SG 200
These are the two scientists who helped to disprove the theory of spontaneous generation.

58. Answer SG 200 Who are Francesco Redi and Louis Pasteur?
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59. SG 300
In order to disprove spontaneous generation, two scientists both conducted this type of experiment.

60. Answer SG 300
What is a controlled experiment?
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61. SG 400
This was the manipulated variable from Redi’s experiment.

62. Answer SG 400
What is the cover on one jar of meat?
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63. SG 500
This is why spontaneous generation is incorrect.

64. Answer SG 500
What is, “because all living things come from other living things”?
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65. SG 600
This was the manipulated variable in Pasteur’s experiment.

66. Answer SG 600
What is boiling one flask?
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67. SG 700
This is roughly when Redi conducted his experiment, and when Pasteur conducted his experiment.

68. Answer SG 700 What are the mid 1600s, and the mid 1800s?
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69. SG 800
This is the name of the process that is still used today that was discovered due to Pasteur’s famous experiment.

70. Answer SG 800
What is pasteurization?
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71. How many of your team’s points do you wish to wager?
Miscellaneous 100
These are two examples of a unicellular organism.
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72. Answer Miscellaneous 100
(only 2 needed) What are bacteria, yeast, or some protists?
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73. Miscellaneous 200
This is an example of an autotroph, and a heterotroph.

74. Answer Miscellaneous 200
What is a plant, algae, or some bacteria (autotrophs), and what is an animal, fungi, some protists, and some bacteria (heterotrophs)?
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75. Miscellaneous 300
This is asexual reproduction.

76. Answer Miscellaneous 300
What is reproduction that only uses one parent, and the offspring are genetically identical to the parents?
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77. Miscellaneous 400
This is the function of nucleic acids.

78. Answer Miscellaneous 400 What is, “to direct the functions of cells”?OR
What is, “the chemical instructions that cells need to carry out the functions of life”?
The chemical instructions that cells need to carry out the functions of life.
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79. Miscellaneous 500
This is the organization of the following structures from least complex to most complex. Organs, cells, tissues, organism, organ system.

80. Answer Miscellaneous 500
What are cells, tissues, organs, organ systems, & organisms?
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81. Miscellaneous 600
These are two examples of cells that are big enough to see without a microscope.

82. Answer Miscellaneous 600
What are eggs and amoebas?
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83. Miscellaneous 700
These are two functions of lipids in cells.

84. Answer Miscellaneous 700
What are stored energy, and building materials?
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85. Miscellaneous 800
This is how many cells are in a the multicellular organism—a human.

86. Answer Miscellaneous 800
What is trillions?
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88. Characteristics of Living Things
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Final Question
Characteristics of Living Things

89. The category is: ENERGY USE Write down how many of your team’s points that you wish to wager.

90. ENERGY USE
All organisms use this energy either directly or indirectly.

92. ANSWER
What is the sun’s energy?