What are Living Things Like Notes

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What are Living Things Like Notes
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Objective

• Distinguish between living things and nonliving
  things.

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Vocabulary

• Organism
• Cell
• Homeostasis

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Organism

• Any living thing.

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• Living things are organized.

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Cell

• Smallest unit of an organism that carries on the
  functions of life.

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• Your body is organized into many different types
  of cells.

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• Living things respond.

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Homeostasis

• An organisms ability to keep the proper
  conditions inside no matter what is going on
  outside the organism.

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• Living things use energy.

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• Living things grow and develop.

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• Complete development of an organism can take a
  few days or several years.

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• Living things reproduce.

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• Living things reproduce themselves in many
  different ways. A Paramecium reproduces by
  dividing into two. Beetles, like most insects,
  reproduce by laying eggs. Every spore released
  by the puffballs can grow into a new fungus.