1. Characteristics of Living Things

2. 1. All Living Organisms are:
Made of cells.
Prokaryotic-no nucleus
Eukaryotic-has a nucleus

3. 2. All living things Reproduce
Asexually-one parent
Sexually-two parents
Two Cells
One Cell

4. 3. All living things grow and develop
Change in size, shape & structure

5. 4. Living things respond to the environment
A stimulus causes a response
Ex. Self-defense, survival
Including homeostasis
Maintaining internal conditions
Ex. Temperature, water, electrolytes

6. 5. Living things obtain and use energy
Anabolism
Metabolism =
Catabolism
Anabolism: putting together substances to STORE or ABSORB energy
Catabolism: breaking apart
substances to RELEASE energy

7. Are Non-living things dead?

8. Living things can be alive or dead.
Non-living things do NOT meet ALL the characteristics of life, and therefore, they are not considered alive or dead. Still vital to earth.