Characteristics of life
What is the first characteristic of life?
has cells
quality of being alive, never alive/ once was alive
First day of winter
December 21, winter solstice
What dead items did you add to your container?
various answers: soil, water, leaves, sticks, lichen, berries, etc.
a reproductive cell distributed through the air
spores
What is the second characteristic of life?
consume energy
habitat/environment
WHERE something lives
First day of spring?
First day of fall?
Spring equinox-March 19-22
Autumn equinox-September 19-22
After adding the dead materials from outside, what did you add to the mini-habitat?
water
a state of suspended activity
dormant
What is the third characteristic of life?
grow and develop
food/energy/waste
provides energy/ability to do work/the part of food that is unused and discarded by an organism
What months are in Winter?
December, January February, March
On day 11, how was your habitat different?
all colors gone, items decaying, mold growing
an organisms reaction to its environment
response
What is the fourth characteristic of life?
respond to environment
adaptation
What is one example form our video of an animal's adaptation?
behavior or structure that helps an organism survive
bird beaks, giraffe neck, armadillo, sloth, echidna snout
What months are spring?
March, April, May, June
A bacterial infection that goes to your blood stream is called blood poisoning. What should you do?
Go to the ER and get antibiotics
unit of classification that refers to one kind of organism
species
What is the 5th and 6th characteristic of life?
maintains temperature balance and reproduces
organism
a living thing, can be a plant, human, animal, or single celled organism
What months are summer?
What months are fall?
June, July, August, September
September, October, November, December
Mold can be good and bad....explain this
good examples are penicillin and blue cheese
bad mold can make you sick
to create new individual organism of the same kind
reproduce