Use with textbook pages 8-11.
Identify the characteristic of living things described in each statement. A list of the
characteristics is given below.
A. reproduce
8. use energy
C. made of cells
D. produce waste
E. take in nutrients
F. respond to stimuli
G. grow and develop
1. A tadpole undergoes metamorphosis and becomes a bullfrog. Groow and develop.
2. Humans breathe out carbon dioxide when they exhale. Ose energy.
3. Birds produce guano as a thick white paste consisting of mostly uric acid.
4. A bacterium splits into two equal halves to produce two new daughter cells.
5. Under a microscope, some internal leaf structures are arranged like bricks in a wall.
6. A raft of Steller sea lions consume fish, squid, and octopus as part of their diet.
7. A Western rattlesnake coils up on the road to bask in the sun so that it can stay
warm.
8. A runner eats a spaghetti dinner to carbo-load the night before the Vancouver Sun
Run.
9. In order to increase in size, a Dungeness crab has to undergo moulting to shed its
exoskeleton.
10. A student views Euglena, a unicellular organism, under the microscope and makes
a sketch of it in her notebook.
1. Thousands of spawning salmon can be seen swimming upstream along the Adams
River in Kamloops to lay and fertilize their eggs.
2. The European wall lizards on the Saanich Peninsula eat lots of insects to have
enough energy for their active lifestyle jumping.