Life Cycles Lesson 1

What do we call living things?

• things

• organisms

• rocks

• planets

What are the 7 things that organisms DO?

• Movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrition (obtain energy)

• run, walk, swim, eat, read, write, talk

• Trick Question! They do NOTHING

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto

How do plants move?

• lean towards the sun

• walk to the lake

• crawl to the rocks

• They don't move!

How do humans move?

• They fly.

• They orbit the sun

• They run, walk, swim

• They don't move

Is your desk alive?

• Yes

• No

Living things ......

• grow

• stay the same

Living things....

• Do not need air

• breathe

Living things need......

• toys

• nutrition

Living things ....

• don't feel emotions

• react

Living things.......

• reproduce

• Never have offspring