Living Things Flashcards
Mrs ferg
Movement,respiration,sensitivity,feeding,excretion,reproduction,growth
Characteristics of living things
Movement
Animals move from place to place,plants open and close petals and turn to face the sun
Respiration
Respiration is the release of energy from food
Plants need this to stay alive
Sensitivity
Living things are aware of what is around them, animals can react quickly,plants react to light water and gravity slowly
Feeding
Plants make their own food , animals need to eat plants or other animals to get energy
Excretion
Excretion is the removal of wastes that has been made in the body of an animal or 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
Can move, cannot make their own food, divided into invertebrates and vertebrates, vertebrates have backbone e.g human, dog, fish , birds, invertebrates do not have back bone e.g worms, insects, snails
Plants
Fixed in one position, make their own food (photosynthesis)