PORTAGE LEARNING MODULE EXAM
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
GRADED A+
1. Cell - ANSWER ✔ Basic unit of life
2. What is adaptation - ANSWER ✔ a change or process that allows
a organism to become better suited for their environment.
3. Characteristics of a living thing - ANSWER ✔ (1) Order
4. (2) Evolutionary Adaptation
5. (3) Regulation
6. (4)Energy Processing
7. (5)Growth and Development
8. (6) Response to Environment
9. (7)Reproduction
10. Organism - ANSWER ✔ An individual living creature
11. Order - ANSWER ✔ is the taxonomic rank used in the
classification of organisms Example: Sun Flower- Seeds and
Leaves
12. evolutionary adaptation - ANSWER ✔ Is smaller genetic
changes that allow for better survival. (Cold Climate- Animal
grows more Fur)
13. regulation - ANSWER ✔ Where optimal levels must be
maintained to achieve homeostasis. When levels are not optimal
the organism needs a regulatory process. ( Shivering when cold-
Shivering creates heat)
14. Energy Processing - ANSWER ✔ Biochemical reactions
that produce energy. The sum of those biochemical reactions are
metabolism. Living organisms need energy= ATP. Plant traps light
for photosynthesis
15. Metabolism - ANSWER ✔ The sum of biochemical
reactions
, 16. Growth and Development - ANSWER ✔ All living things
experience growth or change over their lifetime. (Grows, matures,
ages, Dies)
17. Response to Environment - ANSWER ✔ Living things
respond to their environment through adaptation.
18. What is stimulus? - ANSWER ✔ Is anything that causes an
organism to respond
19. What is Behavioral Adaptation? - ANSWER ✔ A squirrel
hibernating
20. What is Physical adaptation? - ANSWER ✔ A crab shell
becoming hard
21. Reproduction - ANSWER ✔ Living thing must have a way
of reproducing new and thriving generations
22. Sexual reproduction - ANSWER ✔ Fusion of two gametes
to make new offspring.(One gamete from each parent.)
23. asexual reproduction - ANSWER ✔ A single organism
creates off-spring.
24. spore formation - ANSWER ✔ an asexual reproductive
process in which an organism forms a special cell called a spore. (
Bacteria, Plants, Fungi)
25. binary fission - ANSWER ✔ A form of asexual reproduction
in single-celled organisms by which one cell divides into two cells
of the same size. ( Prokaryotes and some Eukaryotic protOZOA.)
26. Vegetable reproduction - ANSWER ✔ a form of asexual
reproduction in which offspring grow from a part of a parent plant.
( Strawberry plants)
27. Budding - ANSWER ✔ Asexual reproduction in which a
part of the parent organism pinches off and forms a new organism (
Fungi, bacteria , Cnidaria organism)
28. Fragmentation - ANSWER ✔ (Star fish, Segmented worms)
29. Levels of Biological Organization - ANSWER ✔ biosphere,
ecosystems, communities, populations, organisms, organs and
organ systems, tissues, cells, macromolucules , molecules, atom
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
GRADED A+
1. Cell - ANSWER ✔ Basic unit of life
2. What is adaptation - ANSWER ✔ a change or process that allows
a organism to become better suited for their environment.
3. Characteristics of a living thing - ANSWER ✔ (1) Order
4. (2) Evolutionary Adaptation
5. (3) Regulation
6. (4)Energy Processing
7. (5)Growth and Development
8. (6) Response to Environment
9. (7)Reproduction
10. Organism - ANSWER ✔ An individual living creature
11. Order - ANSWER ✔ is the taxonomic rank used in the
classification of organisms Example: Sun Flower- Seeds and
Leaves
12. evolutionary adaptation - ANSWER ✔ Is smaller genetic
changes that allow for better survival. (Cold Climate- Animal
grows more Fur)
13. regulation - ANSWER ✔ Where optimal levels must be
maintained to achieve homeostasis. When levels are not optimal
the organism needs a regulatory process. ( Shivering when cold-
Shivering creates heat)
14. Energy Processing - ANSWER ✔ Biochemical reactions
that produce energy. The sum of those biochemical reactions are
metabolism. Living organisms need energy= ATP. Plant traps light
for photosynthesis
15. Metabolism - ANSWER ✔ The sum of biochemical
reactions
, 16. Growth and Development - ANSWER ✔ All living things
experience growth or change over their lifetime. (Grows, matures,
ages, Dies)
17. Response to Environment - ANSWER ✔ Living things
respond to their environment through adaptation.
18. What is stimulus? - ANSWER ✔ Is anything that causes an
organism to respond
19. What is Behavioral Adaptation? - ANSWER ✔ A squirrel
hibernating
20. What is Physical adaptation? - ANSWER ✔ A crab shell
becoming hard
21. Reproduction - ANSWER ✔ Living thing must have a way
of reproducing new and thriving generations
22. Sexual reproduction - ANSWER ✔ Fusion of two gametes
to make new offspring.(One gamete from each parent.)
23. asexual reproduction - ANSWER ✔ A single organism
creates off-spring.
24. spore formation - ANSWER ✔ an asexual reproductive
process in which an organism forms a special cell called a spore. (
Bacteria, Plants, Fungi)
25. binary fission - ANSWER ✔ A form of asexual reproduction
in single-celled organisms by which one cell divides into two cells
of the same size. ( Prokaryotes and some Eukaryotic protOZOA.)
26. Vegetable reproduction - ANSWER ✔ a form of asexual
reproduction in which offspring grow from a part of a parent plant.
( Strawberry plants)
27. Budding - ANSWER ✔ Asexual reproduction in which a
part of the parent organism pinches off and forms a new organism (
Fungi, bacteria , Cnidaria organism)
28. Fragmentation - ANSWER ✔ (Star fish, Segmented worms)
29. Levels of Biological Organization - ANSWER ✔ biosphere,
ecosystems, communities, populations, organisms, organs and
organ systems, tissues, cells, macromolucules , molecules, atom
