All living things have certain characteristics
Let’s see if Fire has them all :
1. Living things are made of cells.- FALSE. end of discussion, but I will go on anyway.
2. Living things obtain and use energy – Can be argued either way, so we will give this a True.
3. Living things grow and develop. – True
4. Living things reproduce. – Hmm. It is true that fire can lead to more fire, but fire can be initiated from non living things, such as two flint stones being rubbed against each other, or a match stick against a hard surface. Living things do not arise from non-living things. Spontaneous generation was disproven a while back. Therefore, FALSE.
5. Living things respond to their environment. – Debatable.
6. Living things adapt to their environment. – Debatable.
Like I mentioned earlier, lviing things have all of those 6 characteristics, since Fire fails on at least 2 of them, it can be agreed that it is in fact not alive.