Living and Nonliving 1
True or False:
Living things adapt and respond to the environment.
True
True or False:
A stick is a living thing.
Are video games living things?
False
What is the basic building blocks of all living things?
Cells
Living
Something that does not grow or develop, does not contain cells, and can't reproduce is:
Nonliving
Making an exact copy or a
completely different version of itself:
Reproduction
What type of organisms reproduce quickly and also have a very short life span?
unicellular
Taking in oxygen or carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to create or use nutrients:
Respiration
Do nonliving things grow and develop?
No
Why do multicellular organism have a longer lifespan than a single celled organism?
Groups of cells in multicellular organism have specific jobs to keep it alive.
If you injure or damage a single celled organism, what will happen?
It will not be able to
survive, it will die
If you damage a cell in a
multicellular organism, what will happen?
There are many cells specialized for every job, so damaging one cell will not really effect it.
What must unicellular
organisms do to survive?
They must perform all of the things to stay alive within that one cell.
An organism with many
specialized cells:
Multicellular
Are things that are dead nonliving?
No, they were once living.
Examples of nonliving things:
coke bottle
robot
rocks
dirt
computer
phone
Examples of living things:
bacteria
insects
plants
animals
people
What is needed for organisms to have the ability to do work and carry out their life processes?
Energy
The instructions that all living things have in every cell that tells a cell what to do:
DNA
Characteristics of living things:
Cells with DNA
-Turn nutrients into energy
-Homeostasis
-Grow and develop
-Reproduction
-Ability to adapt
-Respond to stimulus
-Respiration
-Move
Examples of living things
responding to stimulus:
Sunflowers always face the sun
People startle at loud noises
Leaves changing colors in the Fall
Maintaining a stable internal condition or environment in order to survive:
(example: people maintain the same body temperature even when it is really hot or cold outside)
Homeostasis
Examples of
multicellular organisms:
Mushrooms
plants
trees
insects
animals
people
Examples of Single celled organisms:
Yeast
Amoeba
Bacteria
Paramecium