Living, Non-living, dead, or dormant?
You!
Living
Which characteristic of living things best describes why your arms and legs get longer and stronger as you get older?
Growth and development
We used this substance as an energy source during our lab.
sugar
Movement is one of the characteristics of life.
FALSE.
This is a synonym for “living things”
organisms
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dead (RIP)
Before a lacrosse game, a student eats and metabolizes a big dinner. Which characteristic of life does this best describe?
The vial that contained the red spheres exhibited this characteristic of life.
All living things are made of cells.
TRUE!
Related or having to do with living things
biotic
A seed that is given water, sun, and a place to grow.
LIVING!
Birds fly south for the winter. Which characteristic of life best describes this behavior?
Responds to stimuli from the environment. The stimulus here is a depletion in food supply! Response = flying south
What word would you use to describe the contents of Vial #4 BEFORE we added any water?
dormant
All organisms are animals.
False
Related or having to do with non-living things
abiotic
The fish in our fish tank.
ALIIIIIVE
We would need to use a microscope to determine whether something had this characteristic of life.
Made of cells.
What word describes the contents of Vial #4 AFTER we added water, light, and a place to grow?
something can be dead even if it was never alive.
false.
This is a signal that an organism receives from its environment and then responds to.
stimulus
A deciduous tree in the winter or fall (*hint* think about why the leaves of deciduous trees fall off during winter…)
DORMANT!
We exhibit this characteristic when we exhale carbon dioxide. Plants exhibit it by releasing oxygen.
OR
eliminates wasteWe observed evidence of gas exchange when we saw some of these in vial 3
bubbles!
Non-living things NEVER did all 7 of the characteristics of life.
true
Things that are alive, but inactive. They may show the 7 characteristics more slowly or only under certain conditions.