SCIENCE

LIVING THINGS

BY Amrina Rosyada, S.Si

 Concept map
Living things

Non-living
things
Microscope Cell Organisation
Characteristics of living
things

Cell

Tissue

Organs

Systems
 LOOK AT THE PICTURE BELOW

• What do you think?

• Which one is living things?
• Which one is non-living things
• Can you differentiate them?
 We are surrounded by living things and non-living
things. Sometimes it is difficult to differentiate them
 THE CHARACTERISTICS OF LIFE
• All living things have seven characteristics in common
• These are:
– Movement
– Respiration
– Sensivity
– Growth
– Reproduction
– Excretion
– Nutrition
• Non-living things do not show these characteristics
 MOVEMENT
• Movement is vital for living organism
to survive.
• They must also avoid danger
• For example:
Animals need to find food and shelter
Plants need as much light as possible
to make food.
PLANT NEED LIGHT

PLANT MOVEMENT TO
TRAP INSECT
 RESPIRATION
• Breathing describe just the movement
of an air in and out of the lungs.
• Respiration is a series of chemical
reaction, taking place inside of cell, to
release energy.

(reactants) (products)
RESPIRATION
 SENSITIVITY
• All living organisms can sense if there
are changes in their surroundings
• When they do that, they can find food
and keep out of danger
• They can responds to changes in the
world around it
• The main human sense are sight,
hearing, smell, taste and touch
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 • Some plants trap and digest animals.
• These plant can’t get the minerals they need
from the soil, so they eat animal instead.

When a fly enters a trap on a venus flytrap, it touches very

sensitive hairs in the trap and the trap shuts tight very
quickly. The plant then start digest the fly. This is a good
example of a plant showing sensitivity, movement and
nutrition.
 GROWTH
• Living organism take time to grow
• As living things grow, they increase in
body size, weight and number of body
cells. It can be measured by height and
weight. It changes your body shapes
and function
• Growth is an irreversible (cannot be
reversed) and permanent process
TIME LAPSE
PLANT
GROWTH
 REPRODUCTION
• Reproduction means an
organism produces
offspring and thus ensures
the continuation of their
population
 EXCRETION
• Excretion means removing waste products
from the body.
Breathing : remove carbon dioxide and water
vapour
Sweat : remove water, salt and urea
Urine : remove water, salt and urea
• Excretion is important because waste
product are poisonous and if they build up
in the body, it can kill the living organism
BREATHING

SWEATING
 NUTRITION
• All living organism need to make or take
in food for fuel to give them energy
1)Animals cannot make their own food,
so they eat other organism
2)Plants make their own food through
photosynthesis. They absorb minerals
from the soil as part of their nutrition
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NON LIVING THINGS
There are 2 types of non-living things:
1. Non living things that refers to material which is
originated from living things. For example :
 A wooden chair (a non living thing) is made from a tree (living
things)
 Petroleum (a non living thing) is made from organisms which
died million years ago (living things)
2. Non living things that refers to items that
are derived from material which were
never alive. For example:
 Metals, Sand and glass
THE END