Life reproduces with heredity. There is variation in that heredity. Living things grow and develop. There is evolution of populations, adaptation, and innovation. There are species that are reproductively isolated from other species and on their own evolutionary trajectories.
Species make societies of kin, and parasitic to symbiotic relationships with other species.
These properties of life produce the world as we now know it. As we shall see, the composition of the atmosphere, and our climate, and perhaps even the structure of the Earth's surface itself is due to life processes within the Earth System. Largely correct, he postulated the Rock Cycle. Sedimentary Rocks - Rocks formed from sediment, precipitation from solution, or the products of organisms. Igneous Rocks - Rocks formed from hot molten material.