1. Edit the text with your own short phrases. To change the sample image, select the picture and delete it. Now click the Pictures icon in the placeholder to insert your own image. The animation is already done for you; just copy and paste the slide into your existing presentation. CHARACTERISTICS OF LIVING THINGS

2. Edit the text with your own short phrases. To change the sample image, select the picture and delete it. Now click the Pictures icon in the placeholder to insert your own image. The animation is already done for you; just copy and paste the slide into your existing presentation. Cells are the tiny puzzle pieces that make up all living things. Single-cell organisms have everything they need to be self-sufficient. Multicellular organisms have specialized cells that do only certain things.

3. Edit the text with your own short phrases. To change the sample image, select the picture and delete it. Now click the Pictures icon in the placeholder to insert your own image. The animation is already done for you; just copy and paste the slide into your existing presentation. All living things take in energy and use it for maintenance and growth. Plants use sunlight to obtain their energy. Animals eat food to obtain their energy. All energy necessary for life originally came from the Sun.

4. Edit the text with your own short phrases. To change the sample image, select the picture and delete it. Now click the Pictures icon in the placeholder to insert your own image. The animation is already done for you; just copy and paste the slide into your existing presentation. Living things will make changes in response to a stimulus in their environment. A behavior is a complex set of responses.

5. Edit the text with your own short phrases. To change the sample image, select the picture and delete it. Now click the Pictures icon in the placeholder to insert your own image. The animation is already done for you; just copy and paste the slide into your existing presentation. Cell division is the orderly formation of new cells. Cell enlargement is the increase in size of a cell. Cells grow to a certain size and then divide. An organism gets larger as the number of its cells increase.

6. Edit the text with your own short phrases. To change the sample image, select the picture and delete it. Now click the Pictures icon in the placeholder to insert your own image. The animation is already done for you; just copy and paste the slide into your existing presentation. Reproduction is not essential for the survival of individual organisms, but must occur for a species to survive. All reproduce in one of the following ways: *Asexual reproduction – producing offspring from one parent *sexual reproduction – producing offspring from two parents

7. Edit the text with your own short phrases. To change the sample image, select the picture and delete it. Now click the Pictures icon in the placeholder to insert your own image. The animation is already done for you; just copy and paste the slide into your existing presentation. Adaptations are traits that give an organism an advantage in a certain environment. Variation of individual is important for a healthy species.