What are the 5 characteristics of living things?

1.Living things are organized (made of cells)

2. Living things use energy

3. Living things respond to their surroundings

4. Living things grow and develop

5. Living things reproduce

What are cells?

Cells are the smallest unit of life that still carry on life functions.

The ability to maintain the proper conditions needed for life.

1. A place to live

and

2. Raw materials

A trait of a living thing that helps it live in its environment.

Everything that surrounds a living thing.

Ways in which living things respond to stimuli.

The inactive state of some animals during winter months.

Movement of animals from one living place to another.

A change that causes a response.

A behavior that an organism is born with.

A behavior that an organism is taught.

The things an organism must do to stay alive.

The process of breaking down food so that it can be used by living things.

What is excretion?

The process of getting rid of waste.

The process of taking in food.

The process of getting energy from food.

The process of moving nutrients and waste in a living thing.

Ingestion + digestion = nutrition

Name 2 human adaptations.

1)Flexible thumb

2)The ability to change our environment