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Consolidation Worksheet 1
What Are the Life Processes in Humans
and Other Animals?
Complete the life processes shown in each picture on the left. Then
match them to the correct sentences on the right. The first one has
been done for you.
Consolidation Worksheet 2
What Are the Life Processes in Plants?
1. Tick (ü) the boxes next to the statements that are TRUE.
a. Plants can move from place to place.
b. Plants can make their own food.
Plants undergo important life processes: nutrition, growth,
c.
sensitivity, movement, respiration, excretion and reproduction.
d. Plants need sunlight and water.
e. Plants do not increase in size, height and weight as they grow.
f. Plants are sensitive to changes in their surroundings.
g. All plants reproduce using seeds.
2. Match the pictures to the life processes that they show. One has
been done for you.
Humans and
Life processes Plants
other animals
Growth
Reproduction
Sensitivity
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Living Things and Their Life Processes
Consolidation Worksheet 3
How Can We Tell Living Things From
Non-living Things?
1. Fill in the blanks.
Al t can carry out important l p
— nutrition, growth, movement, sensitivity, respiration, excretion and
reproduction. A n -l t cannot carry all
these out.
A B C D
Instructions:
Column A Cross out every box that does not contain the letter ‘A’.
Row 1 Cross out every box that contains only one vowel.
Column D Cross out every box where the fourth letter is an ‘R’.
Row 2 Cross out every box that contains the letter ‘O’.
Column B Cross out every box that contains the letter ‘S’ twice.
Row 4 Cross out every box that contains both the letters ‘I’ and ‘O’.
L P
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Living Things and Their Life Processes
Exam Practice
Process skills: Observing, Comparing, Analysing
Tom set up two aquariums, X and Y. First, he filled two similar tanks with equal
amounts of water. He then placed five fishes in each tank. He fed the fishes in
both tanks with the same amount of food. He also placed an air pump in Tank X.
X Air pump Y
The next day, he observed that the fishes in Tank Y were swimming near the
surface of the water.
Hint:
a. Why were the fishes in Tank Y swimming near What did Tom place in Tank X
the surface of the water? [1 mark] but not in Tank Y? What was
missing in the water in Tank Y
that the fishes needed?
b. Tom changed the water in both tanks and removed three of the fishes
from Tank Y. The remaining two fishes stopped swimming near the
surface of the water. Why were they able to do so? [1 mark]
c. What does this tell you about a characteristic of living things? [1 mark]
d. Name three variables that Tom kept the same to make his experiment a
fair one. [1 mark]
2. Match the pictures to the life processes that they show. One has
Animals do this to look for food
been done for you.
S ensitivity and shelter, and to escape
from danger. Humans and
Life processes Plants
other animals
A living thing gets bigger and
N utrition
heavier over time.
Growth
Living things respond to
E xcretion
changes around them.
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b. It cannot move on its own. Row 4 Cross out every box that contains both the letters ‘I’ and ‘O’.
✓
c. It responds to changes in its surroundings. ✓
a. Write down the sentence that can be made from
d. It is able to reproduce. ✓ the eight words left.
e. It is unable to grow. ✓
Animals need water and food to stay alive.
f. It respires and excretes. ✓
Based on the information above, is the Amoeba a living thing or a b. What two words describe the activities you have
non-living thing? Why? crossed out?
The Amoeba is a living thing. It can carry out all the life processes:
L ife P rocesses
nutrition, movement, sensitivity, reproduction, growth, respiration
and excretion.
Exam Practice
Process skills: Observing, Comparing, Analysing
Tom set up two aquariums, X and Y. First, he filled two similar tanks with equal
amounts of water. He then placed five fishes in each tank. He fed the fishes in
both tanks with the same amount of food. He also placed an air pump in Tank X.
The next day, he observed that the fishes in Tank Y were swimming near the
surface of the water.
Hint:
a. Why were the fishes in Tank Y swimming near What did Tom place in Tank X
the surface of the water? [1 mark] but not in Tank Y? What was
missing in the water in Tank Y
They were trying to get more dissolved oxygen. that the fishes needed?
b. Tom changed the water in both tanks and removed three of the fishes
from Tank Y. The remaining two fishes stopped swimming near the
surface of the water. Why were they able to do so? [1 mark]
There is enough oxygen dissolved in the water for the two fishes.
c. What does this tell you about a characteristic of living things? [1 mark]
Living things need oxygen.
d. Name three variables that Tom kept the same to make his experiment a
fair one. [1 mark]
The size of the tanks, the amount of food, and the amount of water in
each tank.
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Glossary
Chapter 1
Chapter 1:
Living Things and Their Life Processes
Chlorophyll The green pigment in plants that traps sunlight and makes it
possible for plants to make food
Excretion The process of passing waste materials out from the body
Fern A flowerless and seedless plant that has large, delicate leaves and
reproduces by spores
Fruit The reproductive part of a flowering plant that contains the seed
Moss A type of tiny green plant that has small leaves and no flowers
Non-flowering plant A plant that does not produce flowers and fruits
Nutrition The process by which a living thing takes in food and uses it for
growth and health
Respiration The process in which energy is released when digested food and
oxygen mixes with the blood
Seed An object produced by the plant by which a new plant can grow
Stomata Tiny openings on leaves through which gases and water vapour
pass