Characteristics of Living Things

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

• All living things use energy

• All living things maintain homeostasis

• All living things contain cells

• All living things grow

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

• All living things use energy

• All living things maintain homeostasis

• All living things contain cells

• 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 use energy

• All living things maintain homeostasis

• All living things grow and develop

• All living things reproduce

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A lion and a zebra both drink from the same watering hole at the same time.

• All living things grow and develop

• All living things respond to stimulus

• All living things need energy

• All living things need water

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An eagle swoops down and plucks a salmon from a lake.

• All living things need water

• All living things respond to stimuli

• All living things are made of cells

• All living things need energy

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A horse flicks away annoying biting flies with a swish of its tail.

• All living things are made of cells

• All living things need water

• All living things are made of the same chemicals.

• All living things respond to stimuli.

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A mouse, an oak tree, a mushroom and you all have DNA.

• All living things need energy

• All living things contain the same chemicals

• All living things are made of cells

• All living things reproduce

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

• All living things have similar chemicals

• All living things respond to stimuli

• All living things grow and develop

• All living things reproduce

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Bacteria is a unicellular organism. Which characteristic of life is this?

• All living things use energy

• All living things contain cells

• All living things respond to their environment

• All living things grow

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A houseplant on the windowsill bends toward the window

• All living things have cells

• All living things respond to their environment

• All living things use energy

• All living things grow

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