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1.  Pickup Life’s Characteristics Sheet

2.  Open Notebooks to a New Day

3.  Pre-read and complete Life’s Characteristics Sheet.

Let’s learn about the ___ characteristics of

life.

1) ALL LIVING THINGS

________________________ A CELL IS THE SMALLEST LIVING UNIT THAT CAN CARRY OUT LIFE PROCESSES.

_____________________ organisms makeup most organisms on Earth.

They have everything they need to be self-sufficient.

In multi-cellular organisms, the cells _____________ to perform specific functions

(bone cells, skin cells, muscle cells, root cells,

leaf cells).

Smooth muscle Nerve cell Leaf cell Red Blood Cell

Yeast cell

2) ALL LIVING THINGS ______________________________

The SUN is the main source of energy on Earth!!!

The Sun makes light that is used by plants!!!!!! What is the name of this process by which

plants convert the energy from the sun into food?

Plants ___________ trap the energy of the Sun and make glucose (sugar) in the

process called photosynthesis.

_______________ (animals) get their energy from the plants!!!!

3) ALL LIVING THINGS ___________________________

Living things respond to immediate and long-term changes in their environment

(change fur color to blend in, plants bend toward light).

Responding to Stimuli

a.  pupils dilate in lower light levels b. reflexes – touch hot stove, fight/flight

4) ALL LIVING THINGS ___________________________________

_________________________________

Ex: Body temperature needs to stay constant, so: •  Humans sweat when too hot and shiver when cold

•  Dogs pant when too hot

5) ALL LIVING THINGS __________________

Reproduction must occur for a species to survive. Reproduction can be either _________________.

6) ALL LIVING THINGS _________________________ To grow means to get bigger and to get bigger; _______________________.

To increase numbers of cells, cell division must occur.

Develop means to _________________ _______________.

7) ALL SPECIES CHANGE __________________________________________________________

Species must adapt to changes in their environment or risk becoming extinct.

Adaptations occur over a very long period of time (millions of years).

8) ALL LIVING THINGS _________________.

________ provides instructions for making molecules called proteins. Proteins build cells.

DNA carries the _________________ from parent to offspring (heredity).

BELLRINGERS 1.  Define: living, dead, nonliving.

2. Give examples of living, nonliving and dead objects.

3. Describe how you would know if an object is living or nonliving?

4.  Define: homeostasis & metabolism

Bellringer: Give an example of something living, dead and nonliving.

* Living organisms must show ALL 8 characteristics of life.

*Nonliving things do not have all 8 characteristics.

*Dead organisms ONCE showed ALL 8 characteristics but now do not.

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