Characteristics of Living Things
Explore the fundamental characteristics that define living organisms, including growth, reproduction, and response to stimuli.
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Characteristics of Living Things
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. This worksheet will test your knowledge of the characteristics of living things.
1. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of living things?
Ability to grow
Ability to reproduce
Ability to rust
Ability to respond to stimuli
2. What is the process by which living things create offspring?
Digestion
Respiration
Reproduction
Photosynthesis
3. All living things need to survive.
4. Living things can and develop over time.
5. A rock is a living thing because it can be moved by wind.
True
False
6. Plants are living things because they grow and produce seeds.
True
False
7. List three characteristics of living things.
Match each term with its definition.
8. Growth
a. The process of making more of one's own kind.
9. Reproduction
b. An increase in size or number of cells.
10. Stimuli
c. Anything that causes a reaction in a living organism.