Test Answers
Living things
1. Plants get energy directly from
d. Sunlight
2. All living organisms are made of
d. Cells
3. To move, organisms need
d. Energy
4. As organisms grow, they may change or
b. Develop
5. Sami read a magazine article that says: Plants
grow larger when subjected to music for five hours daily. This is example best
displays
d. Stimulus and response
6. The basic unit of structure and function for all
living things is the
c. Cell
7. A bacterium is a member of the kingdom
b. Monera
8. The science of classifying living things is
called
c. Taxonomy
9. Bread mold belongs to the ________________
kingdom.
b. Fungi
10. Examples of animals are
c. Butterfly, humans and birds
11. Order the following from the most general to the
least general: class,
genus, family, kingdom, phylum, species, order.
Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus,
species.
12. Is a tulip seed living or nonliving ? Explain your
answer.
A seed is a living thing because it has the six
characteristics of living things:
it is made of cells, it uses energy from surroundings, grows and develops into
a plant, it reproduces, it responds to stimuli, it is made of chemicals like
proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, and water.