Characteristics of Life

When you step out into the cold, your body shivers in order to keep its temperature at 98.6^oF.

• All living things use energy
• All living things contain cells
• All living things maintain homeostasis
• All living things grow and develop

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Green plants produce their own food through the process of photosynthesis.

• All living things use energy
• All living things contain cells
• All living things maintain homeostasis
• All living things grow and develop

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A baby song bird hatches from its egg with both parent songbirds watching.

• All living things reproduce
• All living things maintain homeostasis
• All living things use energy
• All living things grow and develop

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A pill bug (roly poly) eats a carrot.

• All living things contain cells
• All living things use energy
• All living things maintain homeostasis
• All living things grow and develop

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A camel has eyelashes that work to keep the dust and sand out of its eyes.

• All living things adapt to their environment
• All living things grow and develop
• All living things have cells
• All living things display organization

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A caterpillar hibernates in a cocoon and emerges as a butterfly.

• All living things adapt to their environment
• All living things use energy
• All living things respond to their environment
• All living things grow and develop

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An amoeba is a unicellular organism. 

• All living things reproduce
• All living things contain a cell or cells
• All living things respond to their environment
• All living things grow and develop

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A tulip opens in the morning at sunrise and closes in the evening at sunset.

• All living things have cells
• All living things use energy
• All living things respond to their environment
• All living things grow and develop

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Over three years, Tim's height has increased from 5'4" to 5'11".

• All living things display organization
• All living things maintain homeostasis
• All living things use energy
• All living things grow and develop

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Something that has never shown the characteristics of life and never will:

• dormant

• nonliving

• living

• dead