Living or Nonliving

Is this LIVING, ONCE LIVING, or NON-LIVING?

Natural Sea Sponge

• Living

• Once Living

• Nonliving

Answer explanation

The correct choice is once living because a natural sea sponge was once a living sea create that is dried out.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

Is this LIVING, ONCE LIVING, or NON-LIVING?

• Living

• Once Living

• Nonliving

Answer explanation

Fire is considered nonliving because it does not have cells, does not grow, and does not reproduce.

Is this LIVING, ONCE LIVING, or NON-LIVING?

• Living

• Once Living

• Nonliving

Answer explanation

Raw Chicken is classified as 'Once Living' because it was once a living chicken.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Is this LIVING, ONCE LIVING, or NON-LIVING?

• Living

• Once Living

• Nonliving

Answer explanation

The correct choice is Nonliving because fossils are actually rocks. Fossils are the remains of once-living things that have turned into rocks through geologic processes making them non-living.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Is this LIVING, ONCE LIVING, or NON-LIVING?

Sweet Gum Tree Seeds

• Living

• Once Living

• Nonliving

Answer explanation

The Sweet Gum Tree Seeds are living because they can grow into sweet gum trees in the right conditions.

Is this LIVING, ONCE LIVING, or NON-LIVING?

Synthetic Sponge

• Living

• Once Living

• Nonliving

Answer explanation

The correct choice is Nonliving because a synthetic sponge is man-made.

Is this LIVING, ONCE LIVING, or NON-LIVING?

Cotton Plant Branch

• Living

• Once Living

• Nonliving

Answer explanation

The correct choice is Once Living because a cotton plant branch was once a part of a living plant, but it is no longer alive.

Is this LIVING, ONCE LIVING, or NON-LIVING?

• Living

• Once Living

• Nonliving

Answer explanation

The correct choice is Once Living because a shark tooth was once part of a living shark.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Is this LIVING, ONCE LIVING, or NON-LIVING?

• Living

• Once Living

• Nonliving

Answer explanation

Crystals are nonliving because they cannot breathe, reproduce, move, etc.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

Is this LIVING, ONCE LIVING, or NON-LIVING?

• Living

• Once Living

• Nonliving

Answer explanation

Frog blood is considered 'Once Living' because it comes from a living organism, the frog.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1