Add to favourites Think about your trip to school this morning. What did you see on the way? Did you see any animals, plants or insects? What were they doing?
Now think about the things you saw that were not living, like rocks, cars and shoes. What is the difference between, what do you think makes something living or non-living?
WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?
All living organisms from a bacteria to an elephant have 7 characteristics in common. You can remember the 7 characteristics by using the acronym, MRS GREN. Watch the video below for an explanation of MRS GREN.
MRS GREN, stands for Movement, Respiration, Sensitivity, Control, Growth, Reproduce, Excretion and Nutrition. Select each of the plus icons below to learn more about each characteristic of living things.
While you may think that something non-living is dead, they are actually 2 different things.
If we say something is dead, we mean that it was once alive. At some point in it’s life it was moving, growing, reproducing etc. While non-living means the thing never had these characteristics.
KEY POINTS
The 7 characteristic of living things are Movement, Respiration, Sensitivity, Control, Growth, Reproduce, Excretion and Nutrition.
Something dead was once alive.
WHERE NEXT?
Add to favouritesYear 7 & 8 TOC Indigenous Science Classification Classification (taxonomy) is the practice of defining and naming groups of living and non-living things,
Add to favourites Year 7 & 8 Topics Classification Organising Plants Plants belong to the kingdom Plantae and are arguably one of the most important
Add to favourites Year 7 & 8 Topics Classification What are species? There are roughly 8.7 million species on our planet, but, what does that
Add to favourites Year 7 & 8 Topics Classification Scientific Names and Linnaean Taxonomy Think about your home. If you were talking to someone in
Add to favouritesYear 7 & 8 TOC Wow science The platypus puzzle When people first discovered the platypus they were very confused! It didn’t conform
Add to favourites Year 7 & 8 Topics Classification Classes of vertebrates Once an organism is categorised into a phylum, we can further group them
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