Living Or Nonliving

Living or nonliving? written by Rachel Rice focus question How can you tell if something is living or nonliving?

生物还是非生物？ 作者：瑞秋·赖斯 核心问题 你怎么判断一个东西是生物还是非生物呢？

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.

引言： 你怎么判断哪个东西是生物，哪个不是呢？ 这只棕熊是生物。 这个玩具机器人不是。

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.

生物与非生物 生物在一些重要的特征上是相似的。 所有生物都会生长，还能繁衍出和自己相似的后代。 它们也会消耗能量、活动、发生变化，并且由细胞构成。

Non -living 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.

非生物可能在某些方面和生物很像。 它们可能会动、会变化，或者消耗能量。 但它们不会符合所有生物的特征，否则它们就是生物了。

Compare living and nonliving things. Some of the ways they are different are easy to spot. The toy robot does not grow.

对比生物和非生物 它们的一些差异很容易就能发现。 玩具机器人不会生长。

It cannot make more things like itself.

它也没法繁衍出和自己相似的后代。