What are the characteristics of LIVING things?
Please list as many characteristics as you can on the lines below.
LIVING
Investigation 1 – What is Life?
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Investigation 1: What is Life?
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Investigation 1: What is Life?
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Investigation 1: What is Life?
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Investigation 1: What is Life?
Comparing living and nonliving things
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Using your cards with living things, please fill out the appropriate characteristics shared by all living things.
Characteristics of living things
Investigation 1 – What is Life?
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Investigation 2.5: Domains and Kingdoms
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Investigation 2.5: Domains and Kingdoms
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Investigation 2.5: Domains and Kingdoms
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Investigation 2.5: Domains and Kingdoms
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Investigation 2.5: Domains and Kingdoms
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Investigation 2.5: Domains and Kingdoms
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Contrasting Cases: Domains and Kingdoms
Cellular
structure
Energy
Source
Reproduction
Kingdom
Protist
Kingdom
Fungi
Kingdom
Plant
Kingdom
Animal
Investigation 2.5 - Domains and Kingdoms
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Movement
Comparing cells
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Please answer the following questions about the cheek cell and the paramecium. Use as
many details from today’s class as you can.
Question
Cheek cell
Is it alive?
Why or why not?
Is it an organism?
Why or why not?
Does it need things
from its
environment?
Why or why not?
Investigation 3 – Microscopic Life
Paramecium
Prokaryotes vs. Eukaryotes: Similarities and Differences
Prokaryotes
Investigation 4 – The Cell
BOTH
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Eukaryotes
Plant cells vs. Animal cells: Similarities and Differences
Plant Cells
Investigation 4 – The Cell
BOTH
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Animal cells
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Investigation
5 - Seeds of Life
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Investigation
5 - Seeds of Life
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Investigation 7: Plant Reproduction
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Investigation 7: Plant Reproduction
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Investigation 7: Plant Reproduction
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Investigation 7: Plant Reproduction
Investigation 7: Card Sort
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After you have separated your cards into two piles, list the organisms that are in each pile.
Indicate what characteristic the organisms in each pile have in common.
Pile 1
All organisms in this pile have this in
common:
Pile 2
All organisms in this pile have this in
common:
List the organisms in this pile:
List the organisms in this pile:
Investigation 7 – Plant Reproduction
Reproduction
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QuickWrite
Write down all that you know about reproduction. As you put down your ideas, think about:
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Why reproduction is important to organisms?
Do all organisms need to reproduce?
Do all organisms reproduce the same way?
Investigation 7 – Plant Reproduction
Sexual and Asexual Reproduction
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Once you have divided your cards into a sexual reproduction pile and asexual reproduction
pile, write down the organism in each pile below and an explanation why you placed the
organism where you did.
Sexual Reproduction
Investigation 7 – Plant Reproduction
Asexual Reproduction
Sexual and Asexual Reproduction
Complete the Compare and Contrast Diagram below. Write some points about how Sexual
Reproduction is different in respect to Asexual Reproduction. Also, think about how the two
processes share one overlying similarity.
Asexual Reproduction
Sexual Reproduction
How Are They Alike?
How Are They Different?
With regards
to…
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Number of parents
required
Identical to parent or
combination of two parents
Investigation 7 – Plant Reproduction
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