Today’s Topic:

Living Things
vs
Nonliving Things
Is it alive or…?
What makes a living thing
different from a nonliving
thing?
 What makes a living thing
different from a nonliving
❏ A living things thing?
use energy!
❏ Any individual form of life that
uses energy to carry out its
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activities is an organism. living thing,
anything that
can live on its
own.
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organization grow

Respond to the
Reproduce
environment
Every organism is formed of
small structural units called
cells.
❏ Organisms obtain energy by taking and
breaking down material.
❏ The food that is ingested through the
process of digestion is broken down to
release energy.
❏ Organisms use energy to do work, like
grow and repair damaged parts.
❏ Organisms react to the changes in their
environment.
❏ A change in the environment that forces
the organism to react is called a
stimulus.
❏ Change of light, sound,
temperature
Living things mature and
grow through different e n t:
o p m
stages of development. Devel of change
r o c e ss u r ing
p urs d
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that o f an
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the lif .
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❏ Living things are capable of producing
offsprings of their own kind through the
process of reproduction.
❏ Their genetic information is passed from
the parents to the offsprings.
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❏ Organisms need water to:
❏ Get rid of waste
❏ Grow
❏ Reproduce
❏ Carry substances into the body
❏ Non-living things are lifeless, they do not have
cells.
❏ They do not have a definite and certain size.
❏ Non-living things never die as they do not have
cells with a definite lifespan.
❏ Fundamental life processes such as
reproduction, nutrition, excretion, etc. are
absent in non-living things.
Classify the descriptions as living thing and non-living
thing.
Living things Non-Living things

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