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Living Organisms and Nonliving Objects

This document discusses the differences between living and non-living things. It outlines the seven key characteristics of living things: feeding, movement, breathing/respiration, excretion, growth, sensitivity, and reproduction. While some non-living things may display one or two characteristics, such as movement, true living things exhibit all seven. Non-living things are divided into those originally from living things, like coal, and those never from living things, like stone.

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Living Organisms and Nonliving Objects

This document discusses the differences between living and non-living things. It outlines the seven key characteristics of living things: feeding, movement, breathing/respiration, excretion, growth, sensitivity, and reproduction. While some non-living things may display one or two characteristics, such as movement, true living things exhibit all seven. Non-living things are divided into those originally from living things, like coal, and those never from living things, like stone.

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Living and Non-living
Things
Living Things
...
We are surrounded by living and non-living things. All animals and plants are living things and biology
is the study of these living things. A cat playing with a ball is obviously living. A pigeon flying from tree to
tree is also a living thing.

Sometimes it is not so easy to decide. Plants are living things but they do not play with balls or fly. If
something is living it will carry out all of the seven activities shown opposite.

Some non-living things show one or two of the seven characteristics of living things. Machines, such as
washing machines, can move. The car needs to be fed with petrol in order to move.

Crystals, such as ice crystals forming on a window, grow bigger if the conditions are right. For something
to be living it has to show all of the seven characteristics of living things.

Non-living things
...
Sand, wood and glass are all non-living things. None of them shows any of the characteristics listed
above. Non-living things can be divided into two groups. First, come those which were never part of a
living thing, such as stone and gold.

The second group are those which were once part of living things. Coal is a good example. It was formed
when trees died and sank into the soft ground. This happened many millions of years ago when the Earth
was covered with forests. Paper is non-living but it is also made from trees. Jam is also non-living but it
was made from the fruit of a plant.

The Seven Characteristics of Living Things


 Feeding
...
All living organisms need to take substances from their environment to obtain energy, to grow and
to stay healthy.
 Movement
 All living organisms show movement of one kind or another. All living organisms have internal
movement, which means that they have the ability of moving substances from one part of their
body to another. Some living organisms show external movement as well - they can move from
place to place by walking, flying or swimming.
 Breathing or Respiration
...
All living things exchange gases with their environment. Animals take in oxygen and breathe out
carbon dioxide.
 Excretion
...
Excretion is the removal of waste from the body. If this waste was allowed to remain in the body it
could be poisonous. Humans produce a liquid waste called urine. We also excrete waste when
we breathe out. All living things need to remove waste from their bodies.
 Growth
 When living things feed they gain energy. Some of this energy is used in growth. Living things
become larger and more complicated as they grow.
 Sensitivity
...
Living things react to changes around them. We react to touch, light, heat, cold and sound, as do
other living things.
 Reproduction
...
All living things produce young. Humans make babies, cats produce kittens and pigeons lay eggs.
Plants also reproduce. Many make seeds which can germinate and grow into new plants.

Living and Non-ling Things

1. There are seven characteristics of living things: movement, breathing or respiration, excretion,
growth, sensitivity and reproduction.

2. Some non-living things may show one or two of these characteristics but living things show all
seven characteristics.

3. Non-living things can be divided into two groups, those which were once part of a living thing and
those which were never part of a living thing.

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