actually no, they can respond their environment from their special senses.
The senses of taste and smell respond to chemical stimuli.
They are alive; but they do not a have a nervous system so they do not feel pain.
hormones
No, pizza is dead. Only living things respond to their environment
NOSE
No they can reproduce if they come across a host cell but cannot respond to their environment
they respond fast because they have faster reflexes there senses are more developed then humans.
Using any or all of your 9 or so senses to examine your environment is organoleptic analysis.
Living things can respond to the environment surrounding them. They are sensitive to their environment, and they can interact with it. Some living things can change their environment as well.
Soil does indeed respond to the environment it is in. Soil will be polluted and erode for example because of influences in the environment.
The Receptor senses changes in the environment and responds by sending information to the Control Center along the Afferent.