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Living, Non-living, dead, or dormant?
The 7 Characteristics
Lab Observations
True or False?
Vocabulary
100

You!

Living

100

Which characteristic of living things best describes why your arms and legs get longer and stronger as you get older?

Growth and development

100

We used this substance as an energy source during our lab.

sugar

100

Movement is one of the characteristics of life.

FALSE.

100

This is a synonym for “living things”

organisms

200

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dead (RIP)

200

Before a lacrosse game, a student eats and metabolizes a big dinner. Which characteristic of life does this best describe?

requires and uses energy
200

The vial that contained the red spheres exhibited this characteristic of life.

growth and development
200

All living things are made of cells.

TRUE!

200

Related or having to do with living things

biotic

300

A seed that is given water, sun, and a place to grow.

LIVING!

300

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

300

What word would you use to describe the contents of Vial #4 BEFORE we added any water?

dormant

300

All organisms are animals.

False

300

Related or having to do with non-living things

abiotic

400

The fish in our fish tank.

ALIIIIIVE

400

We would need to use a microscope to determine whether something had this characteristic of life.

Made of cells.

400

What word describes the contents of Vial #4 AFTER we added water, light, and a place to grow?

living
400

something can be dead even if it was never alive.

false.

400

This is a signal that an organism receives from its environment and then responds to.

stimulus

500

A deciduous tree in the winter or fall (*hint* think about why the leaves of deciduous trees fall off during winter…)

DORMANT!

500

We exhibit this characteristic when we exhale carbon dioxide. Plants exhibit it by releasing oxygen.

exchanges gases,

OR

eliminates waste
500

We observed evidence of gas exchange when we saw some of these in vial 3

bubbles!

500

Non-living things NEVER did all 7 of the characteristics of life.

true

500

Things that are alive, but inactive. They may show the 7 characteristics more slowly or only under certain conditions.

dormant