Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Is it Alive


First we talked about the homework and what was living or not. With most of the plants, it depends. If the plant is picked or chopped down then it is slowly dying, but if the plant is not alive, then it is living.
Things that are living:
-Tree
-boy
-rabbit
-grass
-egg
-bacteria
-cell
-mushroom
-potato
-leaf
-butterfly
-pupae
Things that are non-living:
-rock
-wind
-cloud
-feather
-sun
-river
-fossil

Things that are dormant:
-seed
-hibernating bear
Things that are dead:


most will thik that a river was living, but it is not. The things that are inside of the river are living, but the river itself is notliving.

things that are inside a cell going smaller and smaller
Cell -> comes from other cells

Organells

molecules -> h20 (water)

types of elements -> categories
(atoms) +Hydrogen
+Oxegen
structures
tiny spheres or particles

-Living things are made up of things that are not living

Q: are other things made up of molocules?
A: yes everthing has molecules even if it is living or non-living

A.M.

6 comments:

  1. I am still kind of confused about the bear being dromant and living. Isn't a bear dormant when it is in hibernation but when it is out of hibernation, it is living? I AM SO CONFUSED!!! HELP PLZ

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  2. well a dormant bear is living but it can be considered dormant because it cant react to its enviornment. Yeah its still breathing but it isnt eating or going to the bathroom. It is like a a cacoon exept it isnt in it. It is just in a deep sleep. So it can fall under the catagory of both subjects..

    -Colin Forbes

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  3. Why isn't a river living? It has cells in it, right? Or is that just the bacteria in the water?

    Elizabeth M

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  4. A river isn't living. It has cells in it but they are from the bacteria and other organisms living in the water. The river itself is not made up of cells so it can not be living. :)
    NaTaLiE

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  5. thanks so much A.M. for the help! I was actually confused with the ddormant and non-living categories and forgot to ask what the difference was. But now not only do I know which is which i can actually tell the difference between both very easily, so thanks!

    Caroline S. :)

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