Biology Flashcards
Respiration
Respiration is the release of energy from food
Plants and animals need this to stay alive
Sensitivity
Living things are aware of what you put around them
Animals can react quickly
Plants react to light water and gravity slowly
Feeding
Plants make their own food
Animals eat plants or other animals to get energy
Excretion
Excretion is the removal of waste that have been made in the body of an animal or a plant
Sweat carbon dioxide urine and water are excreted by animals water and oxygen are excreted by plants.
Reproduction
Making babies
Growth
Getting bigger
Animals
Animals can move
Cannot make their own food
Divided into invertebrates and vertebrates
Vertebrates have a back bone eg human dog fish
Invertebrates do ones have a back bone eg worms snails
Plants
Fixed in one position
Make their own food called photosynthesis