3. What does it mean to be Living?
It’s Alive…or is it?
What does it mean to be Living?

4. ALL Living Things Are ORGANIZED REPRODUCE RESPOND to STIMULI DEVELOP
use energy- perform METABOLISM
Respiration
Ingestion
Digestion
Excretion
ADAPT

5. Is it made of cells?
All living things are either a single cell or made of multiple cells.

6. Does it perform complex chemical activities in order to survive?
These complex activities are called metabolism.
Respiration
Ingestion
Digestion
Excretion

7. Respiration
Does it have the ability to turn food materials into energy, usually with oxygen?

8. Ingestion Does it make its own food? If so, it’s an autotroph.
Can you name an autotroph?
Does it catch it’s food?
If so, it’s a heterotroph.
Can you name a heterotroph?
Autotroph
Heterotroph

9. Digestion
Does it break down food into simpler substances? Can it reassemble this simple substances into more complicated ones for later use?

10. Excretion
Can it get rid of waste products?

11. Does it have a life cycle?
Will the organism grow and develop?
Does it have a life span?

12. Does it respond to its environment?
Will a change in the environment or surroundings (stimulus) lead to some action, movement, or change in the organism (response).

13. Does it adapt to its environment?
Will the organism change in such a way to make it better able to survive in its environment (adaptation)?

14. Does it have the ability to reproduce?
Will it use two parents to reproduce (sexual)? Or…..
Can it reproduce from only one parent (asexual)?

15. What does Life need to survive?

16. Energy

17. Food and water

18. Oxygen or some other gas.

19. Living Space

20. Temperature

21. Review