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5 days ago · Big Ideas: All living things on Earth have a need for the same elements- carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur. These elements are born inside of stars and are the building blocks of life.
n Is there a difference between living things and things that are alive? n Is there a difference between non-living things and dead things? n Can a living thing ever become a non-living thing?
With over 1.5 million different types of living thing on Earth, scientists find it convenient to divide things into groups. The largest of these groups are called kingdoms. All living things belong to one of five different kingdoms: plants, animals,bacteria, fungi and protoctists.
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4 days ago · Living things need food and water to survive. The Earth has just the right ingredients for life. Students in this grade band make observations to construct an evidence-based account of how an object made of a small set of pieces can be disassembled and made into a new object.
For instance, Santi Suri, a Svetambara Jaina writer of the eleventh century, provides elegant descriptions of living beings, beginning with the earth beings and concluding with various classes of deities and liberated souls.
Jun 12, 2012 · Most scientists use seven life processes or characteristics to determine whether something is living or non-living. The table below describes seven characteristics of most living things and contains references to earthworms to explain why we can definitely say that they are 'living'.
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4 days ago · Every living thing on Earth is made of one or many cells, with each cell containing the DNA of the organism. That DNA is like a recipe book. It tells the cells how to make the molecules that are needed to give that organism the characteristics that make it unique.
