1. What makes something alive?
Describe the features common to all life?

2. What makes something alive?
Reproduces
Grows
Develops
Uses Energy –food
Responds to environment
Adapts
Made of cells
Moves

3. Reproduction Produce next generation of offspring Individuals Cells
Mitosis
Meiosis
Individuals
Asexual – one parent
Sexual – two parent

4. Growth
Get bigger
Grow larger

5. Development All the changes that occur as a living thing grows
Simple form to complex form
Changes size and shape
New structures

6. Use Energy Energy is the ability to do work Energy comes from food
Cellular respiration is the process used to breakdown foods and release energy

7. Use Energy Producers make food Consumers eat or absorb food
Plants, bacteria, some protists
Consumers eat or absorb food
Animals, bacteria, protists, fungi

8. Respond to Stimuli
Stimuli: Something external or internal that cause a response
Cold: shiver
Hot: sweat
Pressure: pleasure/pain
Sunlight: plant growth
Fear: adrenaline

9. Adaptations Traits that help an organism survive
When the ecosystem changes over time, so do the traits that help the organism survive
Help an organism get food, shelter, a mate
Territory, swim, fly

10. Made of Cells Basic unit of all life One celled organism
Bacteria, protists
Many celled organism
Fungi, plants, animals

11. Movement All life has some type of movement Animals move Plants move
Fungi move
Bacteria move

13. Plant Adaptations Thorns
Waxy coating (cuticle) on the leaves provides water-proofing
Cactus have stems that store water

14. Colors The pepper moth became darker during the industrial revolution
a fine layer of coal dust covered tree trunks where the moth rested during the day
the whitish color against the darker background allow birds to more readily find the moth
The pepper moth survived

15. Morphology
Strawberries have underground stems which readily break so that a new plant can result from just a portion of the parent plant
Leaves of desert plants are often hairy (to reduce water loss) whereas those in the tropics are mostly smooth; l
fruits in temperate regions tend to be hard (nuts, acorns) whereas those of the tropics are often fleshy (banana)
Flowers tend to be large and solitary in tropical plants; smaller and more numerous in temperate regions