5.9A Living vs. Nonliving

5.9A Living vs. Nonliving

By Susan Barron

Living: Anything that is or has been alive​

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Nonliving: Anything that is not now nor has ever been alive. ​

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Living/Nonliving

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Living things:

• Grow

• Eat

• Reproduce

• Adapts to their environment​

Examples:

• Plants

• Animals

• fungi

• bacteria

• people​

Multiple Choice

Which is true for all living things?

• All living things move independently

• All living things have brains

• All living things need insulin to survive

• All living things grow

Multiple Choice

Dead trees and leaves are considered living..

• true

• false

Nonliving things:

• things which cannot eat, breathe, or grow

• have NEVER been alive

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Examples:

• air

• water

• fire

• wind

• rocks

• soil​

• sunlight​

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Interactions:

Living things and nonliving things interact often.​

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Example:

Trees using sunlight to grow.​

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Multiple Choice

Which of these describes one way a living thing and a nonliving thing interact?

• A bear eat berries

• A monkey sits in a tree

• A skunk burrow in the soil

• A wolf hunts a rabbit

Interactions:

Living things interact with other living things as well.

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Example:

A bird uses a twig for its nest.

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Multiple Choice

Which of these describes one way a living thing interacts with another living thing?

• Grass grows in the cracks of a sidewalk

• A plant releasing oxygen in the air

• Ivy growing on a fence

• Ticks living on a dog

Interactions:

Nonliving things interact with other nonliving things as well.

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Example:

Soil (sediment) is weathered from a rock.

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Multiple Choice

Which of these describes one way two nonliving things interact with each other?

• A boy eats ice cream

• Soil gets wet from the rain

• A bear lays down in the grass

• A cricket eats leaves.