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How can you tell if something is alive? Living things include people, pet and farm animals, wild animals and all plants. Non-living things include rocks and all things made by people. Consider how people differ from non-living things. Here are a few differences. You can think of others.
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© 1991 Robert Barrass
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Barrass, R. (1991). Looking at life. In: Mastering Science. Macmillan Master Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11075-9_3
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