Living vs Nonliving Things

5.9A Living vs. Nonliving

Multiple Choice

Is it a living or a nonliving thing?

• LIVING

• NONLIVING

Multiple Choice

Is it a living or a nonliving thing?

• LIVING

• NONLIVING

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is true for ALL living things?

• All living things can move independently.

• All living things need insulin to survive.

• All living things have brain cells.

• All living things grow.

Multiple Choice

Is this specimen living or nonliving? 

• Living
• Nonliving

Multiple Choice

Dead trees and leaves are considered living

• True

• False

Multiple Select

Choose the NONLIVING THINGS

Living and Nonliving Things Interact!

• Living and nonliving things interact often

• My doggy (living) sitting in a car (nonliving)

Multiple Choice

Which statement describes one way in which living organisms in a desert ecosystem interact with nonliving things in the ecosystem?

• Sunlight warms soil on the Earth's surface

• Water wets soil

• Sunlight produces light which warms a dog sitting by a window

• Desert birds eat seeds found in the sand

Living and Living things

• Living and living things have interactions too

• What 2 living things are interacting here?

Multiple Choice

Which of these describes one or more living organisms that interacts with another living organism?

• clover growing in the cracks along a sidewalk

• earthworms releasing carbon dioxide into the air

• bacteria living in the intestines of termites

• ivy plants growing on the side of a building

Non Living & Nonliving

• Nonliving things interact with nonliving things in the world

• What interactions between nonliving things do you see?

Multiple Choice

Which of these is an interaction between nonliving things?

• A boy eats ice cream

• A cricket eats leaves

• Soil gets wet because of water

• A bear lays on grassy field