Living Things
Living things are organisms that have the characteristics of life. These characteristics include:
- Cellular Structure: Living things are composed of one or more cells.
- Growth: Living things grow and develop over time.
- Reproduction: Living things can produce offspring.
- Response to Stimuli: Living things react to changes in their environment.
- Metabolism: Living things obtain and use energy to carry out life processes.
Study Guide
Here are some key points to remember about living things:
- What are the characteristics of living things?
- Cellular structure, growth, reproduction, response to stimuli, metabolism
- What is cellular structure?
- Living things are composed of one or more cells.
- What is metabolism?
- Living things obtain and use energy to carry out life processes.
- Give an example of how a living thing responds to stimuli.
- Why is reproduction a characteristic of living things?
- It allows living things to produce offspring and continue their species.
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Unity and Diversity
Construct an argument from evidence to explain the likelihood of an organism’s ability to survive when compared to the resources in a certain habitat (e.g., freshwater organisms survive well, less well, or not at all in saltwater; desert organisms survive well, less well, or not at all in woodlands).
Create models that illustrate how organisms and their habitats make up a system in which the parts depend on each other.