Comprehensive Questions and
Solutions Graded A+
What are the seven characteristics of living things? - Answer: Growth Movement Sensitivity
Excretion Reproduction Respiration Nutrition.
Define Growth - Answer: A permanent increase in size
Define Sensitivity - Answer: The ability to react to a stimuli in the internal and external
environment and to make appropriate responses
Define Movement - Answer: An action by an organism causing a change in position
Define Excretion - Answer: The removal from organisms of toxic materials and substances
Define Reproduction - Answer: The process that makes more of the same kind of organism
Define Nutrition - Answer: The taking in of materials for energy, growth and development
Define Repsiration - Answer: The chemical reactions in cells that break down nutrients and
release energy for metabolism.