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Title: Traits of Life What makes something alive?


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Traits of LifeWhat makes something alive?
  • Describe the features common to all life?

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What makes something alive?
  • Reproduces
  • Grows
  • Develops
  • Uses Energy
  • Responds to environment
  • Adapts
  • Made of cells
  • Moves

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Reproduction
  • Produce next generation of offspring
  • Cells- Mitosis, Meiosis
  • Individuals
  • Asexual one parent
  • Sexual two parent

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Growth
  • Get bigger
  • Grow larger

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Development
  • All the changes that occur as a living thing
    grows
  • Simple form to complex form
  • Changes size and shape
  • New structures

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Use Energy
  • Energy is the ability to do work
  • Energy comes from food
  • Cellular respiration is the process used to
    breakdown foods and release energy

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Use Energy
  • Producers make food
  • Plants, bacteria, some protists
  • Consumers eat or absorb food
  • Animals, bacteria, protists, fungi

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Respond to Stimuli
  • Stimuli Something external or internal that
    cause a response
  • Cold shiver
  • Hot sweat
  • Pressure pleasure/pain
  • Sunlight plant growth
  • Fear adrenaline

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Adaptations
  • Traits that help an organism survive
  • When the ecosystem changes over time, so do the
    traits that help the organism survive
  • Help an organism get food, shelter, a mate
  • Territory, swim, fly

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Made of Cells
  • Basic unit of all life
  • One celled organism
  • Bacteria, protists
  • Many celled organism
  • Fungi, plants, animals

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Movement
  • All life has some type of movement
  • Animals move
  • Plants move
  • Fungi move
  • Bacteria move
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