Classwork: Characteristics of Living Things

Group number 405

Team number
Names
Marcelo Patricio Isassi Pez A01194128
Fernando Garca Arellano A01194533
Instructions:
Part I
1. Get together with your team members. Assign one member to read the activity and write
the answers that all the members agreed on.
2. All of the team members will help to create a list of 7 questions that must be asked in order to determine whether something is alive or not. Be sure to think about the 7 characteristics of living beings when you design your questions.
i)

Is the organism part of a population?

ii)

Does the organism uses ATP energy and how they use it?

iii)

How does a living thing reproduce?

iv)

How the organism respond to stimuli?

v)

What does the organism do to regulate its temperature?

vi)

How does the organism grows and develops?

vii)

How does living things adapt and evolve in their community?

Part II

1. Use the seven questions that you just created to determine whether or not the following
things are living or nonliving. Be sure that when you answer each of the questions for
both things in the table below, you include some evidence as to whether that thing fulfills
that characteristic of life or not.
Example: a rock does not reproduce this would be insufficient
A rock does not reproduce because more rocks are not produced from one parent
rock. A rock may break apart, but this is not offspring, only fragments of the original.
this provides an explanation of why you think the rock does not reproduce.

Hummingbird

Thunderstorm

i. Yes, because a population is made up of

species and species are living things.

i. No, because a thunderstorm is not a living thing and it is not part of a population

ii Yes, a Hummingbird does gets ATP energy, thanks to the mitochondria, his respiration cell.

ii No, because they do not have a way of

getting energy from something in their inside.

iii. They reproduce with sexual interfere between two animals of the same population.

iii. They cant reproduce due to they are a

phenomenon and something that is created
with bad weather.

iv. Their reaction to stimuli can change, ei- iv. Thunderstorms do not react to stimuli,
ther if theyre searching for minimizing inju- due to, that this is a natural phenomenon.
ry.

v. He can regulate their temperature, thanks

to all the organ systems contribute.

v. They do not control their temperature, due

to this happens depending on the weather.

vi. They grow by increasing their size of

their body, they develop changes in their
organism.

vi. thunderstorms can grow and develop but

not in a living way because they do not have
life.

vii. they adapt to their community, and

evolve through the passing of time.

vii. they do not adapt to the community, because they do not have a community, they
evolve but not in a living matter.

Your conclusion is: Hummingbirds have

life, they experience changes in their organisms and evolve with them, they feel and
have instincts, in resume, they LIVE

Your conclusion is: Thunderstorms do not

have life, they can grow, they develop and
evolve, but NOT in a living matter because
they do not have life.