Living Or Nonliving

Living Or Nonliving

Introduction How can you tell when one thing is living and another is not? This brown bear is a living thing. This toy robot is not.

Living and Nonliving Things Living things are alike in important ways. Living things all grow and make more things like themselves. They also use energy, move, change, and are made of cells.

Nonliving things may be like living things in some ways. They may move, change, or use energy. They are not alike in all the ways, or they would be living things.

Compare Living and Nonliving Things Some of the ways they are different are easy to spot. The toy robot does not grow.

It cannot make more things like itself.