1. Characteristics of Life

2. Movement
All Living things move

3. All living things reproduce

4. Sensing and reacting
All living things sense their environment and react to it.

5. Digestion using energy
All living things break down nutrients for energy

6. Nutrition – getting food
All living things must get food or make their own food.

7. Excretion
Every living thing gets rid of waste

8. respiration
NOT BREATHING!!!!!
Turning nutrients into energy

9. Development
NOT JUST GROWING BIGGER BUT ALSO GETTING MORE COMPLICATED BECOMING AN ADULT