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The six criteria that determine if something is a living thing are: growth, reproduction, response to stimuli, metabolism, organization, and homeostasis. These characteristics help differentiate living organisms from non-living entities.

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Does a car have 5 characteristics of a living thing?

no, fire is not "alive". First of all, the definition of "life" is interesting. It appears you read a book that says there are 5 characteristics, while in my college bio book it says 7 characteristics, so you can see it is already arbitrary. I will use the 7 characteristics in my book just b/c I have it with me and I don't know what your "5 characteristics" are. Note, for something to be "alive" it basically has to have all these qualities. Things that have some of these qualities but not all are not alive (such as viruses). 1. Are hightly organized compared to natural inanimate objects. (Fire fails) 2. Display homeostasis, maintaining a relatively constant internal environment. (Fire fails) 3. Reproduce themselves. (Arguable, but I'd say fire passes) 4. Grow and Develop from simple beginnings. (Fire passes) 5. Take energy and matter from the environment and transform it. (Hmm, I'd say fire passes but then again fire IS energy so maybe not...) 6. Respond to stimuli (I'd say fire fails) 7. Show adaptation to their environment (I donno lol) So as you can see since fire does not pass all it is not alive. Of course almost everything passes at least one of these things, for example try asking these 7 things about a rock!


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Living things that breathe, move, eat, drink, and use energy. Some examples of living things are dogs, birds, humans, snakes, and fish. Trees and other flora are also living organisms Non-living things are resource-based, water, air, ground or are a man-made product such as furniture or chemicals

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What is the one thing that determines the identity of an atom that is whether it is an oxygen atom or a carbon atom?

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