PPT-Living Things

Chapter 2 What is Life Characteristics of living things Cells Contain Chemicals Use Energy. Chapter 2. What is Life?. Characteristics of living things. _____________. _______________. ______________. ________________________. ________________. ___________. Cells -. Cellular Organization. Unicellular. Visual Parts/Surface!!"Sound!!"Smell!!"Tactile!!"Taste!!"Function!!"Encyclopedic!!"Internal!!"Living Things!!"Nonliving Things!METHOD Acknowledgements !"AphasiaBank (www.talkbank.org/AphasiaBank/)!!!" CLASSIFICATION OF LIVING THINGS. ABOUT HOW MANY LIVING THINGS EXIST ON EARTH?. 1.5 MILLION KNOWN ORGANISMS. THOUSANDS MORE IDENTIFIED EACH YEAR. ABOUT 10 MILLION DIFFERENT ORGANISMS BELIEVED TO EXIST ON EARTH. Intro to Biology. EQ: What . are the . c. haracteristics . of . l. iving . t. hings?. What makes something living DIFFERENT from something non-living. ? . Think and discuss . There are actually 8 characteristics that will tell you if something is alive.. Just like we group things, scientists group things too.. grouping similar things together. classification. Kingdoms are the largest groups of living things. Animals. are made of many cells and feed on living or once living things.. SB1c. Identify the function of the four major macromolecules.. Atoms Why is carbon the central atom of living things?. SULFUR. PHOSPHORUS. OXYGEN. NITROGEN. CARBON. HYDROGEN. H. C. N. O. P. S. Which . Does a burning candle show signs of life?. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGdbA0LyIpE. List the characteristics of the following:. House. Puppy. Flower. Water. Which are living?. House. Puppy. Flower. Characteristics of Living Things. What makes something living DIFFERENT from something non-living?. This clip from Sesame Street might help answer that question…. Characteristics of Living Things. There are actually 6characteristics that will tell you if something is alive.. A.  Living Things Are Organized. subatomic particles --> atoms --> molecules --. cells --> tissues --> organs --> organ systems . Each level of organization has . emergent properties.. Have no particular size. Biodiversity is key to a balanced ecosystem. ecosystems. Biodiversity:. the greater the biodiversity of the living organisms, the healthier the ecosystem. Healthy Ecosystems. 1. environment-. Everything that surrounds a living thing. 5. . stimulus-. a. nything that causes a living thing to react. 2. . e. xternal stimulus -. Anything in an organism’s environment that causes it to react. Evolution. – when a species of plants or animals adapts to their environment in order to survive over a long period of time. Key points!. Species. Plants or Animals. Adaptations. In order to survive. Science. Learning intention. To . understand. how scientists determine if something is living or non-living. and to. know the characteristics of living things. .. You will need. A pen . and paper. . WILF: . To know how unicellular living things are able to carry out life processes, and be able to say how they are different from animal and plant cells.. Starting point...... Can you remember what the difference between a multi-cellular organism and a unicellular organism is? Write it down as a sentence..