In science this week we learned about categorizing things and defining them. We made three categories that anything can go into: living, non-living, dormant, dead, and possibly organic.
We learned these ideas by discussing different objects and things and talking about how we could categorize them. For example, we would look at something like a seed. Then , we would analyze it and it's characteristics of life, meaning we'd ask ourselves things such as: does it resperate; does it react to stimuli; does it show growth/development, and other things. We came to the conclusion that because it does not have all of these characteristics, but that it can have them in the future, so it therefore is dormant. We then observed and analyzed other items and categorized them.
Being able to evaluate something using the characteristics of life is very important in Science because it helps you understand how to label or categorize something. For example, if a scientist has something and he has to figure out whether or not it is living, he can take a look at a list of the characteristics of life and evaluate the characteristics of the item.
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