1. Living vs Non-Living Things

2. Characteristics of Living Things
At your table grouping, use your whiteboard to record your thoughts on the following questions:
What are characteristics or features of living things?
What are some examples of living things?
What are some examples of non-living things?

3. Living things… Are organized and made of cells Example:
Organism  organ systems  organs  tissue  cell  organelles

4. 2. Reproduce
Asexual reproduction: one parent, offspring are identical
Sexual reproduction: two parents, offspring are different (genetically)

5. 3. Grow and develop
Grow…get larger
Develop…structural change (puberty, life cycles of insects/frogs)

6. 4. Respond to their surroundings
Response to stimulus
Homeostasis: An organism maintains and keeps the same conditions in order to survive
Example: A person sweats (response) when they’re hot (stimulus) to maintain the constant body temperature needed to stay alive

7. 5. Require energy
Autotroph: makes it’s own energy, like plants doing photosynthesis
Heterotroph: has to consume or eat things to get energy

8. 6. Adapt and evolve
Adapt: Anything that enables an organism to survive
Evolve: Changes in characteristics of an entire species over a long, long, long time