The Five Kingdoms Of Living Organisms

Question 1

Which processes help distinguish plants and animals?

Answer 1

Movement, nutrition and reproduction.

Question 2

Explain a plants movement?

Answer 2

Basic movement, move their leaves in order to get sunlight.Water and nutrients can also move through a plant.

Question 3

Explain animals movement?

Answer 3

Animals can change tori position easily and have a much wider range of movement than plants.

Question 4

Explain the process of nutrition in plants and animals?

Answer 4

Plants make their own food using chlorophyll to make this possible and animals eat plants for their nutritional requirements because they cannot make their own food.

Question 5

Explain reproduction between animals.

Answer 5

Animals can move easily and so reproduction starts with interaction between male and female members of a species.

Question 6

Explain reproduction between plants.

Answer 6

Because plants cannot move, they have to rely on environmental factors like wi d and water to assist them in reproduction.

Question 7

Name the five kingdoms of living things? Explain what they are

Answer 7

1. Bacteria: single cell organisms with no nucleus.
2. Protista: single cell organisms with a nucleus.
3. Fungi: organisms that cannot photosynthesise but get their food from the surrounding environment. Eg mushrooms
4. Plants: organisms that can photosynthesise and make their own food.
5. Animals: organisms that are consumers and that are capable of a much wider range of movements than plants.