Scientific Method and Living Things

How many living things do you see in the image?

• Only one: the owl

• I see two living things: the owl, the tree branch

• I see three living things: the owl, the tree branch, and the leaves

• I don't see any living things

How do scientists define and organize living things?

• They organize it by observing and leaving them together.

• They believe living things is everything that completes 7 characteristics and they organize it by color, shapes. and sizes.

• They don't organize living things.

• They wish to organize things by cooking them.

A ______________ is a feature that helps to identify something.

The mistaken idea that living things arise from nonliving sources is called _______________.

The maintenance of stable internal conditions is called _____________.

A cell is

• the basic unit of structure and function in living things

• when any change or signal happens in the organism

• a single-celled organism

• an action or a change in behavior

How does an organism get and use energy?

• They use the basic building block of life.

• They are using the autotrophs and the heterotrophs

• In the cell, materials are broken down and built up through the processes of metabolism.

• they take vitamins

The following is NOT a characteristic of a living thing

• they reproduce

• they use batteries in order to work

• they grow and develop

• they are made up of cells

Where do living things come from?

In Redi's experiment he was trying to prove this wrong:

• that living things come from living things

• that meat is rotten

• that the flies love meat

• spontaneous generation