Characteristics of Living Things

Makes own food through photosynthesis

• Development

• Autotroph

• Response

• Heterotroph

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Must find and eat food for energy

• Stimulus

• Growth

• Heterotroph

• Asexual Reproduction

Organism gets more complex (smarter)

• Growth

• Stimulus

• Reproduction

• Development

Any change in an organism's surroundings

• Stimulus

• Resources

• Response

• Development

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

To make offspring

• Development

• Growth

• Marriage

• Reproduction

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-2

NGSS.MS-LS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Reproduction requiring 2 parents

• Sexual Reproduction

• Development

• Asexual Reproduction

• Offspring

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-2

Reproduction where offspring are clones of parents

• Sexual

• Development

• Asexual

• Offspring

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-2

The original source of energy for all organisms

• Pizza

• Grass

• Sun

• Water

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

If a creature/thing cannot grow or develop, but can still obtain resources, respond to stimuli, and reproduce, we consider it

• Living

• An organism

• Non-living

• Dead

If a creature/thing can grow, develop, obtain resources, respond to stimuli, AND reproduce, we consider it...

• Living

• A vampire

• Non-living

• Dead

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1