What is the difference between living and non-living things?

living thing needs food and water to survive while nonliving dont need thee things and dont have basic things

Explanation:

Living things :

Can reproduce

Are made of cells

Grow and develop

React to stimulus

Adapt to surroundings

Use and need energy

Explanation:

If an organism can not complete at least one of those actions it is NOT a living thing. For example, if a virus was able to reproduce without a host they would be a living thing, however they can not so they are not living.

explanation:

metals have excess of electrons whereas non-metals have deficiency of electrons. thus, in order to gain stability metals easily donate their electrons to the non-metals.

for example, electronic configuration of sodium is and electronic configuration of phosphorous is .

when a phosphorous atom and sodium atom combine together then sodium will donate is extra one electron to the phosphorous atom. as a result there will be formation of ionic bond between sodium and phosphorous.

the reaction will be as follows.

there, are three sodium sodium atoms and each of them will donate its one extra electron to phosphorous atom. thus, the sub-shell of phosphorous gets completely filled.  

thus, we can conclude that electrons are transferred from atoms of sodium to atoms of phosphorous. this transfer makes the sodium atoms donate one electron and the phosphorous atoms to gain one electron. as a result, the sodium and phosphorus atoms strongly attract each other.

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