HOW DO YOU DIFFERENTIATE organisms from non-living things?

Question

HOW DO YOU DIFFERENTIATE organisms from non-living things?

Answer 1

Organisms breath whereas non-living things do not breath and no growth at all. Besides, living things have genuine sentiment whereas non-living things have fake feelings(such as robot)

Answer 2

movement ---nonliving things can have movement (flag in the wind)

reproduction--- silica crystals can make exact copy's of them self's

metabolism--- cars use energy burn fuel produce waste

the above r not characteristics of only living things

the only reliable characteristic of life is that living organisms resist entropy (the law of nature that states that all systems over time tend to disintegrate to their less organized form. living systems (organisms) resist that law. we could state that life is the victory of mater over entropy

Answer 3

Living things metabolize something for energy and reproduce themselves, non-living things do not.  

Answer 4

organisms are alive and kickin'..

non-living things? they dont replicate.. ^^

Answer 5

MRS GREN.!

Living have to be able to do ALL of the following:

Movement (it must be able to move)

Respiration (breathe)

Sensitivity (can feel things sorta.. thatsa hard 1 to explan...)

Growth (Grow)

Reproduction (make babies)

Excretion (p**p)

Nutrition (eat)

Answer 6

Science divides them by their composition.living cells and molecules.

in our live we can differentiate only the organisms that we know but can not differentiate all the organisms from non-living things without any scientific study. for example we have a lot of organisms under water that we cant understand if they are algae or rock. and so on.  

Answer 7

haha I thought you wrote something else