Living v. Non-living
Unit 1-1 Notes
Mr. Hefti – Pulaski Biology
Please make a t-chart that is about half a
page in size in your notes and list the
living and non-living things you are
about to see in the appropriate columns.
Living
Non-living
Are bones (1) living?
What about algae (2)?
Garbage(3)?
Freshly cut tree(4)?
Lichen (5)
Is a fossil (6) alive?
NaCl (7)
Iron (8)
Water (9)
These substances can be
found in living things…
does that mean they are
living?
What about the
rocks (10)?
The crayfish (11)?
Pollutants (12)?
Insects (13)?
Moss (14)?
Sunlight (15)?
Honeybee
(16)
???
Honey
(17)
What about
viruses (18)?
Stump
(19)
Dirt
(20)
Is it dead or
alive? Living
or non-living?
Carcass
(Free)
How did you do?
Living
(1) Bones
(2) Algae
(4) Freshly cut tree
(5) Lichen
(11) Crayfish
(13) Insects
(14) Moss
(16) Honeybee
Non-living
(3) Garbage
(6) Fossil
(7) NaCl
(8) Iron
(9) Water
(10) Rocks
(12) Pollutants
(15) Sunlight
(17) Honey
(18) Viruses
(19) Stump
(20) Dirt
(Free) Carcass
8 Characteristics of Life
• Biologists characterize life by these functions:
– Nutrition
– Transport
– Respiration
– Excretion
– Synthesis
– Regulation
– Growth
– Reproduction
Biotic / Abiotic
• Biotic: living, once living, or from something
living
Examples:
- Plants
- Animals
- Dead leaves
- Bacteria
- Scat (animal droppings)
• Abiotic: non-living and never was
living
Examples:
- Oxygen
- Wind
- Minerals
- pH
- Water
- Rocks
Please make a t-chart in your notes (this
time a quarter of a page) and list the
biotic and abiotic factors in the following
picture of a rotting log ecosystem. Use
your imagination to identify things that
just might be there…
Biotic
Abiotic
Rotten Log Ecosystem Factors
Biotic
Fungus
Bark
Bacteria
Moss
Ants
Spores
Worms
Abiotic
Sunlight
Moisture
Soil
Oxygen
Carbon dioxide