Life+Research

= = = = =//__How Do We Know Something is Living?__ //= **//__I) Write out and answer these questions using the websites provided:__//**

http://www.windows2universe.org/earth/Life/life.html

1) What are the characteristics of life? Draw the T-Chart from the smartboard and we will fill in together later. http://www.windows2universe.org/earth/Life/life1.html

2) What is Life? http://www.windows2universe.org/earth/Life/origins.html&edu=elem

3) What is the Biosphere? Describe Earth's Biosphere: http://www.windows2universe.org/earth/Life/biosphere.html&edu=elem

4) What are (5) things life is made of? http://www.windows2universe.org/earth/Life/biosphere.html&edu=elem

5) How do our genes make us who we are? http://www.windows2universe.org/earth/Life/genetics_inheritance.html&edu=elem

6) In what ways do we classify things? http://www.windows2universe.org/earth/Life/classification_intro.html&edu=elem

7) What is meant by "diversity" of living things? http://www.windows2universe.org/earth/Life/classification_intro.html&edu=mid

8) Explain the evidence for evolution: http://www.windows2universe.org/cool_stuff/tour_evolution_0.html&edu=elem

9) What is Astrobiology and how does it work? http://www.windows2universe.org/earth/Life/astrobio_intro.html&edu=elem

10) List (2) Scientists who study life and what they do: http://www.windows2universe.org/earth/Life/lifepeople.html&edu=elem

**//__II) Use this site to write out and answer these questions__//** :

http://biology.about.com/od/apforstudents/a/aa082105a.htm

1) What are the basic characteristics of all life as we know it?

2) What are the basic principals of Biology?

**// __III) See what you have learned by playing this game:__ //**

http://reviewgamezone.com/game.php?id=58