Diversity of Life Investigation 1

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Diversity of Life Investigation 1

• What is Life?

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Evidence

• Evidence is information that supports or proves a
  point. Evidence of life would be observations
  that support or prove that something is alive.

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8 Characteristics of Life

• Moves
• Responds
• Develops
• Energy (uses)
• Grows
• Consumes
• Reproduces
• Life Span

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Organism

• Organism- Any living thing- plant, animal, or
  other
• An organism is the most general word used to
  refer to an independently living thing.

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Living

• Living-Things are living if they show all the
  characteristics of life.
• Living things are organisms.

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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.

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Dead

• Things are dead if they were alive at one time
  but no longer can do the characteristics of life.
  

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Nonliving

• Nonliving materials have never been alive. Fire,
  rocks, water, wind, pencils, toys, and computers
  are all nonliving.