1. Circle map Living Things Examples of Living Things 6 Characteristics
What does your list above do that makes them living?

2. Living, Dead(Once Living), Non-living
How can you tell the difference?

3. Living Things Living things have 6 characteristics:
All living things have cells
All living things have DNA
All living things grow and develop
All living things respond to stimuli
All living things have metabolism
All living things reproduce

4. Living Things All Living Things Have Cells
A cell is the basic unit of life
A cell controls all the activities of the organism
AN ORGANISM IS ANY LIVING THING
A living thing can be multicellular (lots of cells)
A living thing can be unicellular (one cell)
All living things have cells
All living things have DNA
All living things grow and develop
All living things respond to stimuli
All living things have metabolism
All living things reproduce

5. Living Things All Living Things Have DNA
DNA is a special chemical inside the cell that controls all the activities.
DNA stands for deoxyribonucleic acid.
It makes you who you are (genes).
All living things have cells
All living things have DNA
All living things grow and develop
All living things respond to stimuli
All living things have metabolism
All living things reproduce

6. Living Things All Living Things Grow and Develop
Grow by getting bigger.
Develop by changing
Get permanent teeth
Voice deepens
Change from a seed to a tree
All living things have cells
All living things have DNA
All living things grow and develop
All living things respond to stimuli
All living things have metabolism
All living things reproduce

7. Living Things All living things respond to stimuli
Stimuli – something that happens in the environment
Sun shining
Cold
Response – what you do
Pupils contract
Shiver
HOMEOSTASIS is your body
maintaining a stable internal
environment (bear growing a fur coat to stay warm)
All living things have cells
All living things have DNA
All living things grow and develop
All living things respond to stimuli
All living things have metabolism
All living things reproduce

8. Living Things All living things have metabolism Use energy Move
Respiration
Excrete waste
Need nutrition
All living things have cells
All living things have DNA
All living things grow and develop
All living things respond to stimuli
All living things have metabolism
All living things reproduce

9. Living Things All living reproduce Make new cells Have offspring
All living things have cells
All living things have DNA
All living things grow and develop
All living things respond to stimuli
All living things have metabolism
All living things reproduce

10. Once Living Things (Dead)
Was living at one time but is no longer alive.
Pencil (wood from a tree)
Dinosaur
All living things have cells
All living things have DNA
All living things grow and develop
All living things respond to stimuli
All living things have metabolism
All living things reproduce

11. Non-Living
In order to consider something non-living it must not have any of the 6 characteristics that living organisms have. or
It was living or dead and has been processed (chemical change).
rock, dirt, water
paper, apple juice, oil

12. Summary LIVING NON-LIVING
Has all 6 characteristics necessary to living things
NON-LIVING
Does not have all 6 things necessary to living things
DEAD
Used to have all 6 characteristics necessary to living things, but doesn't anymore
Example: Tree
Example: Paper
Example: Wood

13. Matching a. Living b. Non-living c. Once Living _____ 1. dog
_____ 2. dinosaur
_____ 3. leather wallet
_____ 4. chicken bone
_____ 5. metal desk
_____ 6. lemonade
a. Living
b. Non-living
c. Once Living

14. Living Things are called “organisms.”