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Exploring Life’s Diversity: Understanding the Characteristics of Living Organisms

Dive into the world of life with this investigation, exploring the evidence, characteristics, and definitions of living organisms. Learn what sets living things apart and discover the nuances between living, dormant, and nonliving entities.

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Exploring Life’s Diversity: Understanding the Characteristics of Living Organisms

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  1. 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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