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Title: Diversity of Life Investigation 1


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Diversity of Life Investigation 1
  • What is Life?

2
Evidence
  • Evidence is information that supports or proves a
    point. Evidence of life would be observations
    that support or prove that something is alive.

3
8 Characteristics of Life
  • Moves
  • Responds
  • Develops
  • Energy (uses)
  • Grows
  • Consumes
  • Reproduces
  • Life Span

4
Organism
  • Organism- Any living thing- plant, animal, or
    other
  • An organism is the most general word used to
    refer to an independently living thing.

5
Living
  • Living-Things are living if they show all the
    characteristics of life.
  • Living things are organisms.

6
Dormant
  • Things are dormant when they do not show
    characteristics of life until they are placed in
    the right environment. Dormant organisms are
    alive, but inactive.

7
Dead
  • Things are dead if they were alive at one time
    but no longer can do the characteristics of life.

8
Nonliving
  • Nonliving materials have never been alive. Fire,
    rocks, water, wind, pencils, toys, and computers
    are all nonliving.
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