Mr.G asked us if this was living or not. We decided judging from this picture that it was living because of the fact that it looks like they're hatching. We also saw them move. Before we looked at them under a microscope they just looked like tiny little things floating around in the liquid, then we looked at them closer. We think there living what do you think? Living or Not?

Living things have to breath, be able to grow, metabolizing food, they can repreduce, if it can move, and if they have cells.

The things i think makes a living thing is if it has a life cycle and a reperduction stage, if it can eat and has a digestive part of its body, moving and also breathing.

When something or someone is living they must have certain needs/characteristics in order to be living.  Most living things need: water, food, and oxygen.  Characteristics include: reproduction, death, and growth.  For example, a plant needs nutrients which come from the sun, soil, and water which is considered food and water.  They need oxygen to produce sugar and energy which helps with functions of growth such as photosynthesis.  Plants do die and some plants or weeds reproduce, but not in the way that animals would.  Wind carries seeds from the plant to areas of soil which then grow there so it is not really considered reproduction but is somewhat similar.  In our lab we used 5 different vials and put certain materials/things into the vials.  This was the manipulated variable. Certain amounts of liquid into each vile, some the same amount. there were 3 different liquids: water, salt water, and sugar water.  each table team was given a different liquid, a few had the same liquid.  We let the liquid sit in the vials and over time we recorded the effects on the materials and detemined if they were living or nonliving.  We also determined which materials were affected more in each liquid enviorment.  Certain materials reacted more in one liquid than it would in another.  If the characteristics/needs match what living is then it was considered living. 

You see that picture below? What do you think it is? Do you think it's living? I do. For one, it's smells nasty. It also comes out of the black eggs. My partner Heidi and I watched them hatch. They look like minature shrimp. I just found out that they were Sea Monkeys! At first, we had absolutly no idea what they were. We wern't even able to tell that they were living. After we saw them under the microscope, e found that they were alive. We were able to watch them hatch. It turns out there are many ways to tell if they're living. If they can hatch, they are definatly living. We were able to hatch them in sugar water and yeast. Odd right? They wern't supposed to hatch, but, they did. Odd creatures Sea Monkeys are.

Things I consider living must go through some type of lifecycle, which should in clude, birth, growth, reproducing and eventually die.

Living things are alive like humans, animals and other kinds. Living things have to have water, food, they breath. They all grow die and reproduce.