Characteristics of Life
Essential Question:
What makes something
alive?
BIOTIC AND ABIOTIC
• Biotic is living, once living, or
made by a living thing.
• Abiotic is nonliving. It has never
been alive.
What makes a thing living?
• intro to characteristics of life video
We will concentrate on these
seven characteristics of life:
•M
•R
•S
G
R
E
N
We will concentrate on these
seven characteristics of life:
• Movement
•R
•S
G
R
E
N
Movement
• an action by an organism or part of an
• organism causing a change of position or place
•
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We will concentrate on these
seven characteristics of life:
• Movement
•R
•S
G
R
E
N
We will concentrate on these
seven characteristics of life:
• Movement
• Reproduce
•S
G
R
E
N
Reproduction
• processes that make more of the
same kind of organism
• asexual – one parent
• Sexual- two parents
• Organisms must come from other
organisms!!!
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•
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY9DNWcqxI4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlBvo3XuMvw
We will concentrate on these
seven characteristics of life:
• Movement
• Reproduce
•S
G
R
E
N
We will concentrate on these
seven characteristics of life:
• Movement
• Reproduce
• Sensitivity
G
R
E
N
Sensitivity
• the ability to detect or sense
changes in the environment
(stimuli) and to make responses
• Homeostasis: maintaining a
condition of balance or
equilibrium within the body,
even when faced with external
changes
We will concentrate on these
seven characteristics of life:
• Movement
• Reproduce
• Sensitivity
G
R
E
N
We will concentrate on these
seven characteristics of life:
• Movement
• Reproduce
• Sensitivity
Grow
R
E
N
Growth
• permanent increase in
size and dry mass by
an increase in cell
number or cell size or
both
We will concentrate on these
seven characteristics of life:
• Movement
• Reproduce
• Sensitivity
Grow
R
E
N
We will concentrate on these
seven characteristics of life:
• Movement
• Reproduce
• Sensitivity
Grow
Respiration
E
N
Respiration
• chemical reactions
that break down
nutrient molecules in
living cells to release
energy
• This is DIFFERENT
than external
respiration (breathing)
We will concentrate on these
seven characteristics of life:
• Movement
• Reproduce
• Sensitivity
Grow
Respiration
E
N
We will concentrate on these
seven characteristics of life:
• Movement
• Reproduce
• Sensitivity
Grow
Respiration
Excretion
N
Excretion
• removal from organisms of
toxic materials, the waste
products of metabolism
• (chemical reactions in cells
including respiration), and
substances in excess of
requirements
We will concentrate on these
seven characteristics of life:
• Movement
• Reproduce
• Sensitivity
Grow
Respiration
Excretion
N
We will concentrate on these
seven characteristics of life:
• Movement
• Reproduce
• Sensitivity
Grow
Respiration
Excretion
Nutrition
• taking in of nutrients
which are organic
• substances and
mineral ions,
containing raw
• materials or energy for
growth and tissue
repair,
• absorbing and
assimilating them
Nutrition
The Characteristics of Life:
• Movement
• Reproduction
• Sensitivity
Growth
Respiration
Excretion
Nutrition
Biotic or Abiotic?
Biotic or Abiotic?
Biotic or Abiotic?
Biotic or Abiotic?
Biotic or Abiotic?
Biotic or Abiotic?
Biotic or Abiotic?
Biotic or Abiotic?
Biotic or Abiotic?
Biotic or Abiotic?
Biotic or Abiotic?