Living Things

Question 1

Mrs Ferg

Answer 1

Characteristics of living things
Movement
Respiration
Sensitivity
Feeding
Excretion
Reproduction
Growth

Question 2

Movement

Answer 2

•Animals move from place to place.

•plants open and close petals,and turn to face the sun.

Question 3

Respiration

Answer 3

•respiration is the release of energy from food.

•plants and animals need this to stay alive

Question 4

Sensitivity

Answer 4

•Living this are aware of what is around them .

•Animals can react quickly.

•Plants react to light, water and gravity slowly.

Question 5

Feeding

Answer 5

•Plants make their own food.

•Animals need to eat plants or other animals to get energy.

Question 6

Excretion

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Reproduction

Answer 7

Make little versions of themselves/babies

Question 8

Growth

Answer 8

Getting bigger

Question 9

Animals

Answer 9

•can move.
•cannot make their own food.
•divided into inverbrates and vertebrates.
•vertebrates have a backbone eg human , dog , fish , birds.
•invertebrates do not have a backbone eg worms , insects , snails.

Question 10

Plants

Answer 10

•fixed in one position
•make their own food ( photosynthesis )