Living Things Flashcards

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Movement Respiration Sensitivity Feeding Excretion Reproduction Growth are characteristics of living things

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Movement

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Animals move from place to place. Plants open and close petals and turn to face the sun

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Respiration

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Respiration is the release of energy from food.

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Sensitivity

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Living things are aware of what is around them. Animals can react quickly. Plants react to light water and gravity slowly

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Feeding

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Plants make their own food. Animals need to eat plants or other animals to get energy

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Excretion

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Excretion is the removal of wastes that have been made in the body of a animal or plant. Sweat carbon dioxide urine and water are excreted by animals water and oxygen are excreted by plants

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Reproduction

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Making babies

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Growth

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Getting bigger

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Animals

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Vertebrates have a BACKBONE e.g human dog fish birds. Invertebrates do not have a backbone e.g. worms insects snails animals can move. Cannot make there own food

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Plants

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Plants are fixed in one position. Plants make their own food which is called photosynthesis

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