Living and Non-Living Things

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Objective

I can classify objects as living or non-living based on their characteristics.

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Warm-up video

SciShow Kids · 4:52Vetted channel

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Key concepts

3 concepts

  1. 1

    Biologists study living things and have found that all living things need energy, grow and change, reproduce, and respond to the world around them.

  2. 2

    To reproduce means to make more of something, such as animals having babies or plants making seeds.

  3. 3

    Even though some living things move, like animals, and some non-living things move, like shadows, all living things must follow all of the rules to be considered living.

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Practice

10 questions

1

According to the video, what are the four rules that biologists use to determine if something is living?

2

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of living things, according to the video?

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Exit ticket

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Classify the following objects as living or non-living: a butterfly, a rock, a leaf fallen from a tree, and a shadow.

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