All living things do seven life processes…
M – movement – living things need to move their bits
R – respiration – producing energy by breathing and eating
S – sense(itivity) – detecting your surroundings like heat and light
G – grow – getting larger by adding some more cells
R – reproduce – making a clone of yourself
E – excrete – getting rid of waste products like carbon dioxide and urea (no, not s**t)
N – nutrition – absorbing chemicals into cells
is water alive?
to be alive, you need to do the seven life processes, aka mrsgren.
Water can and does move, but it requires help from wind and weather.
Water does not reproduce, and it does not make water children.
therefore water is not alive.
is fire alive?
fire moves by itself.
fire does respire to make energy.
fire is sensitive to water and water retardant foam.
fire does grow.
fire does not reproduce.
fire excretes smoke and gas.
fire does get nutrition through things like people, clothes, heat, oxygen and fuel.
Ecology and Living Things
Chosen habitat: Canterbury Plains
The temperature of The Canterbury Plains is around 30 degrees in summer and 15 degrees in winter.