Study Guide: Living Environment Benchmark
Directions: Please use your notes, online science books or check out an old science book
to complete the following study guide.
Section 1: Classification
Be able to define the following terms:
Write the definitions of each in your own words on a separate sheet of paper or on
flashcards.
Autotroph
Heterotroph
Unicellular
Multicellular
External features
Internal features
Vascular/ Nonvascular
Carnivore/herbivore/omnivore
Classification
1. What are the 6 characteristics all living things have in common?
a. take in _______________
b. remove____________
c. made of ______________
d. respond to _____________
e. reproduce
f. __________ and develop.
Use vocabulary words from above to answer ?’s 2- 6.
2. The two characteristics all plants have in common is that they are
______________ and _______________________.
3. The two characteristics all animals have in common is _________________ and
________________
4. Tigers eat only meat so they are __________________________.
5. Scientists classify organisms by their ____________________,
_____________________ and behavior patterns.
6. Celery is a ____________________ plant because it has a tube like transport
system to carry nutrients throughout the plant.
7. What are the 3 types of symmetry? Draw a picture of an organism that has each
type of symmetry.
Section 2: Cells
Vocabulary: Be able to define the following terms:
Write the definitions of each in your own words on a separate sheet of paper or on
flashcards.
Selectively permeable
Diffusion
Organelle
Mitosis
Osmosis
Respiration
Photosystheis
Use the following word bank to answer the questions below. You may use words more
than once.
Oxygen
Carbon dioxide
Glucose
Photosynthesis
Respiration
Sunlight
Energy
Mitochondria Chloroplasts
1. What are the materials necessary for plants to perform photosynthesis?
__________________ , _____________, and ________________________.
2. What are the products of photosynthesis? _____________________ and
______________________.
3. The purpose of respiration is to produce ________________ for all living things.
4. Most of the energy produced during respiration is made in the
___________________, or powerhouse of the cell.
5. Please fill in the table below.
Organelle
Cell Wall
Function
Plant /Animal /Both
Cell Membrane
Nucleus
Vacuole
6. Which process is responsible for an organism growth and repair? Mitosis or
Diffusion (circle)
7. Which process is responsible for the transport of materials in and out of the cell?
Mitosis or Diffusion (circle)
8. Look at the table above, which organelle allows cells to perform diffusion?
Part 3: Organ Systems
1. Put the 5 levels of organization listed below in order from smallest to largest.
Organ
Organ System
Tissue
Organism
Cell
____________ , ______________, ________________, ____________, _________
2. Fill in the following chart.
Organ System
Function
Circulatory
To transport needed
materials throughout
the body and carry
waste away from
cells.
2 sample organs
Respiratory
Lungs, trachea
Immune
White blood cells
Provides support
and helps you move
Digestive
1 type of tissue that
would make up an
organ and why.
Connectiveconnective tissue
supports your body
and connects its
parts.
Epithelial- lines all
of your internal
organs.
3. What is the only organ system not necessary for an individuals survival but is
necessary for the survival of a species?
________________________________________
4. Explain why no one organ system can be picked out as the most important.
__________________________________________________________________
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5. What do a fish, frog and human respiratory system all have in common?
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