Classifying Living Things

Classifying Living Things

Prep Course

Open Ended

How can you tell if something is alive?

Living things:

• Made of cells

• Organized

• Grow and develop

• Respond to environment

• Reproduce

• Use energy

Multiple Choice

Which is NOT a characteristic of living things?

• Made of cells

• Made of muscles

• Use energy

• Move

Made of Cells

• All living things are made of cells

• Unicellular Organisms

• Multicellular Organisms

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Examples of Unicellular Organisms

• They can stay alive by itself

There are many ways to classify living things

• Unicellular Organisms vs Multicellular

• Producers vs Consumers

• Habitat (Where they live)

Multicellular Organisms

• Trillions of cells

• Cells work together

• Different parts of different types of cells

Multiple Choice

Multicellular or Unicellular?

• Multicellular

• Unicellular

Multiple Choice

Unicellular or Multicellular?

• Unicellular Organism

• Multicellular Organism

Living things:

• Grow

• Develop

• Reproduce

Living things use Energy

• Some make own food

• Some eat others

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Autotrophs

• Make own food

• Convert sunlight into food (photosynthesis)

• Some bacteria convert chemical into food (chemoautotrophs)

Heterotrophs

• Get energy from other organisms

• Ex. Animal and Fungi

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Multiple Choice

What is an heterotrophs ?

• Make their own food

• Make their own energy

• Eat others for energy

• All of the above

Multiple Choice

What type of organisms are autotrophs?

• They reproduce

• They make their own food

• The eat others for food

• All are correct

Multiple Choice

What is an example of autotrophs?

• Cat

• Dog

• Rabbit

• Grass

Multiple Choice

What is an example of heterotroph?

• tree

• bugs

• water

• all of the above

Organisms need:

• Habitat: environment they live in

• Food and water

Deep sea fish

• Habitat: Deepsea

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Habitat: Rainforest

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Summary

• Classify things to make it easier to learn/remember/research

• Living things: Eat, move, reproduce, organize, respond, use energy, grow

• There are many ways to classify organisms