Living vs Nonliving Things — Flashcards

Grade 1 · Science · Flashcards

Review living and nonliving vocabulary with these 12 flashcards!

Flashcards

living thing: Something that grows, needs food and water, responds to its surroundings, and can reproduce.
nonliving thing: Something that does not grow, eat, breathe, or reproduce — like rocks, water, and plastic.
organism: Any living thing, including plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria.
reproduce: To make new living things of the same kind; a key characteristic of all life.
grow: To become bigger and develop over time — one of the signs of life.
respond: To react to the environment, like a plant turning toward light or an animal running from danger.
habitat: The natural environment where a living thing finds everything it needs to survive.
energy: The power living things need to move, grow, and carry out life functions.
breathe: Take in air to get oxygen — most living things need to do this to survive.
characteristics of life: The traits all living things share: grow, reproduce, need energy, respond, made of cells.
once living: Something that was alive but is no longer carrying out life functions, like wood or leather.
cell: The tiniest building block of all living things — every organism is made of one or more cells.