 in 5-part series of biology today's program deals with processes of life thank you for joining us after watching this video lesson you should be able to compare range of biological processes in nature between living and non-living organisms or things please take a look at these examples of living and non-living things living things include all different kinds of animals and plants non-living things include things such as rocks buildings and furniture from these examples what differences can you figure out from living and non-living things exactly let's see to understand the differences between living things and non-living things we have to look at their different characteristics all living things need food in order to live the process by which organisms obtain nutrients from food is called nutrition or feeding and this is the first characteristic of living things for example human beings and animals feed on different types of food these include meat milk eggs vegetables fruits and the like and in the case of animals they eat grass meat and so on plants also use oxygen and water to live and grow just like other living organisms but plants make their own food using sunlight and water now non-living things are quite different from living organisms because they do not feed they do not need food to exist eat eat eat mom is not eating living organisms also have to respire or breathe in order to survive is prevented from getting into or out of our lungs will suffocate and die as humans or animals we cannot stay for long without oxygen otherwise we'll die we need it for breathing or respiration do you know why we sweat after exercising actually when the food we eat is broken down and used in our body it results in the formation of metabolic waste products which must then be eliminated from the body this process is known as expression and it's very important for the body to free itself from toxic substances and we do this by sweat let's see how animals reproduce chicken hatch eggs goats and other mammals give birth to live ones plants also reproduce new ones the ability of living organisms to produce new enviyos of their own kind is known as reproduction living organisms are also capable of movement again something that non-living things cannot do they cannot move themselves but have to be moved by someone else we can describe movement as an action of changing position living organisms can move from one place to another look here humans and animals grow walk and run insects fly and so beds the last characteristics of living organisms which we will discuss today is growth do you know what growth means well this is what all of us do we are born as babies and soon start getting bigger we increase both in size and height you remember the new born we had at the beginning of our lesson even the little one grew up so fast he quickly grew into a child who matures and become an adult all too soon they get older game and life speeds to an end the old ones die and are constantly replaced by new lives now viewers in this lesson we discussed the main characteristics of living things we should distinguish them from non-living things we looked at nutrition respiration excretion reproduction growth and movement he was thank you for watching i hope you enjoyed the lesson in next program we will be talking about biology laboratory rules and safety in our environment until then goodbye and take care