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
Biologists study living things and have found that all living things need energy, grow and change, reproduce, and respond to the world around them.
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To reproduce means to make more of something, such as animals having babies or plants making seeds.
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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
According to the video, what are the four rules that biologists use to determine if something is living?
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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