1. To be successful today you will need…
Living or Nonliving Lab
Announcements:
Fire drill procedures
Seating Chart tomorrow

2. To be successful today you will need…
Scientific Method Cornell Notes
Living or Nonliving Lab
Announcements:
Fire drill procedures
Seating Chart tomorrow
SM Scenario HW DUE TOM!!

3. Characteristics of Living Things
Essential Question: What criteria do scientists use to determine if something is living or non living?

4. 1. All Living Organisms are:
Made of Cells
the basic unit of life

5. Two types:
Prokaryotic
Eukaryotic

6. Organisms can be Unicellular
Carries out ALL life functions with only a one cell
Multicellular
Many cells work together to carry out life functions

7. 2. All living things Reproduce
Asexually
Sexually
Requires a male sperm & female egg
One cell divides into two cells

8. 3. All living things Grow
Change in size, shape & structure

9. 4. Living things respond to the environment
A stimulus causes a response
Homeostasis
(Maintaining internal conditions)
Ex: Temperature
Ex: Survival

10. 5. Living things obtain and use energy
AKA: Metabolism

11. Are Non-living things dead?

12. Living things can be alive or dead.
Non-living things do NOT meet ALL the characteristics of life, and therefore, they are not considered alive or dead. Still vital to earth.

13. Living or Non Living???
LIVING!!!! It once met all the characteristics of life ~ It is now dead

14. MUST INCLUDE ALL 5 CHARACTERISTICS
Summary
Write a one or two sentence summary on the characteristics of life at the bottom of your Living or Nonliving Lab
MUST INCLUDE ALL 5 CHARACTERISTICS
EX: All living things share the following characteristics…
EX: To be considered living, organisms must contain…

15. Finish Living vs. Non Living Lab