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The 7 Life Processes BQ: What does it mean to be alive?

STARTER: Find
examples of living and
non-living things in
Springfield.

How do you know that your examples are living or

The 7 Life Processes BQ: What does it mean to be alive?
The 7 Life Processes BQ: What does it mean to be alive?

M S
Movement
R
Respiration Sensitivity

G R E
Growth
N Reproduction
Excretion
Nutrition
The 7 Life Processes BQ: What does it mean to be alive?

M S
Movement
R
Respiration Sensitivity

G R E
Growth
N Reproduction
Excretion
Nutrition
The 7 Life Processes BQ: What does it mean to be alive?

Respiration is NOT the same as breathing

Breathing is the p
rocess of taking in
and giving out car oxygen
bon dioxide.
Respiration is a p
rocess of transfor
food into energy t ming
hat happens in ev
ery cell.
The 7 Life Processes BQ: What does it mean to be alive?

Plants carry out the 7 life processes too!

Moveme
nt: Plant
towards t s grow
he light. T
called pho his is
totropism
.
The 7 Life Processes BQ: What does it mean to be alive?

Plants carry out the 7 life processes too!

Respirat
i
need ener on: Plants
gy to mov
grow. The e and
y get this
energy fro
m respira
tion.
The 7 Life Processes BQ: What does it mean to be alive?

Plants carry out the 7 life processes too!

Sensitivity:
Plants can
sense where lig
ht is
coming from so
they can
grow towards t
he light.
The 7 Life Processes BQ: What does it mean to be alive?

Plants carry out the 7 life processes too!

Growt
Plants s h:
tems,
roots, l
eaves
and flo
wers
grow
throug
hout
their liv
es.
The 7 Life Processes BQ: What does it mean to be alive?

Plants carry out the 7 life processes too!

Reprodu
ction:
Plants pro
duc e
seeds whi
ch grow
into new p
lants.
The 7 Life Processes BQ: What does it mean to be alive?

Plants carry out the 7 life processes too!

Excre
tion:
Photos
produc ynthesis
es oxyg
waste p en as a
r
plants oduct. The
get rid
waste o of the
xygen.
The 7 Life Processes BQ: What does it mean to be alive?

Plants carry out the 7 life processes too!

n : t s c a n m ake
Nutritio P la n
y
their own food b
i s. T h e y u s e sim ple
photosynthe s
icals a n d th e e n ergy in
che m s u gar.
ke fo o d li ke
sunlight to ma
The 7 Life Processes BQ: What does it mean to be alive?

ovement
eproduction
ensitivity
rowth
espiration
xcretion
utrition

What is the difference between breathing and

The 7 Life Processes BQ: What does it mean to be alive?

Living or
non-living?

Prep
The 7 Life Processes BQ: What does it mean to be alive?
The 7 Life Processes BQ: What does it mean to be alive?
The 7 Life Processes BQ: What does it mean to be alive?

Prestructural - I cannot yet

My Progress?
name one of the 7 life
processes.
Unistructural - I can name
and define the 7 life processes.

Multistructural - I can classify something

as being living or non-living based upon the 7
life processes.

Relational - I can explain the

difference between breathing and
respiration.

Extended Abstract - I can explain the

importance of carrying out each of the 7 life
processes.
The 7 Life Processes BQ: What does it mean to be alive?