Student Names:

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Directions:
1. Insert a column to the right in the table.
2. Insert a row at the top and insert appropriate column headings.
3. Type in each cell to right the characteristic described in the cell to the left. Choose from
the list of characteristics of living things provided below.

Characteristics of living things

reproduction sensitivity nutrition respiration
movement excretion growth

Animals may be able to walk, or less obvious, plants that

have parts that move to track the movement of the sun.

A chemical reaction that happens within cells to release

energy from food.

The ability to detect changes in the surrounding

environment.

Using food to produce new cells. The permanent increase in

cell number and size.

Making organisms like itself passing genetic information

onto their offspring.

Getting rid of waste.

The intake and use of nutrients. This occurs in very

different ways in different kinds of living things.