1. Characteristics of Living Things
Tapp Middle School

2. Group the items below:

3. What characteristics determine whether something is considered living or biotic?

4. There are 6 characteristics that all living things share!
Discuss with your elbow partner what you think some of the characteristics are.

5. All living things have…
CELLS!
Cells are structures that contain all the materials necessary for life.

6. Sense & Respond to Change
All living things…
Sense & Respond to Change
Ex. Sweating, exhaling; plants giving off oxygen

7. All living things…. Reproduce
Ex. Animals and plants make copies of themselves

8. All living things have…
DNA

9. All living things… Use Energy Ex. Animals Food, oxygen,
Plants Sunlight, carbon dioxide

10. All living things… Grow and Develop
Ex. Animals grow from birth, plants grow from seeds

11. Can You Remember the 6 Characteristics?

12. Regroup the items below: