Life and Living

Question 1

What are living things?

Answer 1

Living things need to carry out the 7 life processes

Question 2

What are the 7 life processes?

Answer 2

Movement
Respiration
Sensitivity
Growth
Reproduction
Excretion
Nutrition

Question 3

What is movement?

Answer 3

All living things move. Plants grow and move towards the sun. Animals move from place to place.

Question 4

What is respiration?

Answer 4

Respiration is breaking down food for energy. Changing Carbon Dioxide into Oxygen

Question 5

What is sensitivity?

Answer 5

All living things can feel changes in their environment.

Question 6

What is Growth?

Answer 6

All living things can grow. Animal babies grow into adults and seeds grow into plants.

Question 7

What is reproduction?

Answer 7

All living things reproduce. Animals have young and plants produce seeds from which more plants grow.

Question 8

What is excretion?

Answer 8

Waste products are removed from the body. Both plants and animals have to get rid of extra water and gas.

Question 9

What is nutrition?

Answer 9

Animals eat food in order to get nutrients. Plants produce their own food by turning sunlight into energy. This is called photosynthesis.

Question 10

What are non-living things?

Answer 10

Non-Living things do not carry out the 7 life processes

Question 11

What are dead things?

Answer 11

Dead things use to carry out the 7 life processes but now they don’t.