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Life Processes and Homeostasis Review Activity
Name ______________________
Multiple Choice Section: Choose the response which best completes the
statement or answers the question. Place the number corresponding to that
response before the number of the question or statement.
1. Which term includes all the activities required to keep an organism alive?
(1.) metabolism (2.) growth (3.) nutrition (4.) excretion
2. The life process of circulation in an organism directly involves those
activities used to (1.) release energy from food (2.) produce cellular waste
products (3.) obtain and digest materials (4.) absorb and distribute
materials
3. An activity carried on by every living plant and animal is (1.) reproduction
(2.) respiration (3.) photosynthesis (4.) transpiration
4. Which life process prevents the accumulation of metabolic wastes in a bald
eagle? (1.) nutrition (2.) excretion (3.) digestion (4.) ingestion
5. As a direct result of which life process does a plant make a variety of
complex chemical substances from simpler ones, such as poisons, drugs,
and flavorings? (1.) synthesis (2.) digestion (3.) excretion (4.) respiration
6. Which life function provides substances that may be used by an organism
for its growth and for the repair of its tissue? (1.) nutrition (2.) excretion (3.)
regulation (4.) reproduction
Completion Section:
1. The taking in of food is called _______________.
2. The study of living things is called _______________.
3. The sum total of all life processes or activities is known as _______________.
4. The process by which food is utilized to provide energy in the form
of ATP the organism can use is called _______________.
5. The movement (circulation) of materials throughout an organism
is called _______________.
6. The increase in size of a living thing is called _______________.
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7. The removal of wastes from an organism is called _______________.
8. This is the one life process not necessary for any individual organism.
This life process where by organisms make more of their own kind is
called _______________.
9. The tendency of organisms to maintain a stable internal environment
or "steady state" is called _______________.
10. Structures which open and close openings in plants regulating
water loss and gas exchange are called ___________________.
11. The hormone produced by the pancreas which lowers blood
glucose levels is called _____________________.
12. Disruptions in homeostasis may result in death or ____________________.
13. The ______________________ is an organ which produces a hormone regulating
blood glucose.
Short Written Response
1. In three steps, explain how perspiration maintains temperature homeostasis
in humans.
2. Given the life processes which follow:
-- digestion
-- circulation
-- respiration
-- synthesis
a.) define two of these life processes above.
b.) for the two life processes you defined, explain how they relate to
assist an organism in the maintenance of homeostasis.