Transcript Living, Non-living and Dead

Living,
Non-living
and Dead
A tutorial
• I will identify the characteristics of living
things
• Living is BIOTIC
– “Bio” means life
• Non-living is ABIOTIC
– “A” means without
All Living things …
Eat = metabolism
Breathe = respiration
Grow
Reproduce
Adapt
Are Made of Cells
Animals Eat…
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NOTES
• Bears eat fish.
• Bears are carnivores.
• Ticks eat blood
• Ticks are parasites
• Carnivores eat
meat.
• Parasites live off
hosts
• Cows eat hay.
• Cows are herbivores.
• Many humans eat plants
and animals
• Humans are omnivores
• Herbivores eat
plants.
• Omnivores eat
both plants and
animals
Plants eat…
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Notes
• Plants “eat” sun, water and dirt.
• Dirt has minerals and gases
Animals Breathe…
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Notes
• Animals breath with lungs, gills or skin.
– People breath through lungs.
– Fish breath through gills.
– Worms breath through skin.
• “Breathe” = Respiration = exchange
gasses
Plants Breathe..
Notes
• Plants breathe through holes in their
leaves.
– The holes are called stomata.
Animals Grow
Chick
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Chicken
Egg
Egg
Tadpole
Frog
Plants Grow
Acorn
Oats
Sapling
Tree
Oats
Notes
• Some things grow by making cells bigger;
some things grow by adding cells.
– Animals grow by adding cells
– Plants grow by adding cells
Living things Reproduce
Notes
• To reproduce is to make babies.
• Animals reproduce sexually.
– Sexually needs a partner (2).
• Some plants and cells reproduce asexually.
– Asexually means alone (1).
Adapt
Rabbit
Fish
Notes
• To adapt is to change.
– The rabbit adapts to the snow by being white.
It also has padded feet.
– The fish adapts to the water by breathing with
gills. It also has fins to swim.
– People adapt to temperature by changing
clothes.
Cells
Plant cell
Animal cell
Notes
• Cells are the smallest living things.
• All living things are made of cells.
• There are different kinds of cells
– plant cell.
– animal cell.
– bacteria cells.
• Cells can only come from other cells
Dead things
Were once alive
Do not have the characteristics of life
Non-living things
• Were never alive or went through a
process to become non-living
Paper
Rocks
Water
IS this ALIVE?
Showy lady slipper
IS this ALIVE?
Cardinal
IS this ALIVE?
Iceberg
IS this ALIVE?
car
IS this ALIVE?
cells
IS this ALIVE?
Grain
IS this ALIVE?
Snake
IS this ALIVE?
Apple
IS this ALIVE?
Calculator
Name the biotic things in this picture.
Name the abiotic things in this picture.
• What are the characteristics of life?
• What is the difference between
biotic and abiotic things?
• Name 5 things you see in the
classroom that are biotic.
• Name 5 things you see in the
classroom that are abiotic.