Living vs. Non-Living
What is something that needs food and water, grows and changes, and can reproduce?
What is a living thing?
What is a habitat?
What is a place where an animal lives.
What is the word for when plants and animals depend on each other?
What is interdependence?
Is soil living or nonliving?
Nonliving
Name one thing that can change a habitat.
A fire, storm, drought, construction, or pollution.
Is a chair living or nonliving?
What is nonliving
Name one thing a habitat provides for animals.
Food, water, space, or shelter.
How do plants help animals?
They provide food and shelter.
Name one nonliving thing found in a habitat.
Rock, soil, water, or sunlight.
What is a drought?
A long time with very little rain.
Name two examples of living things.
What are a puppy and a flower. (Other correct examples are acceptable.)
What habitat might a fish live in?
A pond, lake, river, or ocean.
How can animals help plants grow in new places?
They move or spread seeds.
What do plants get from soil that helps them grow?
Water and nutrients.
How can cutting down trees affect birds?
Birds may lose places to build nests.
A computer does not need food or water and does not grow or reproduce. Is it living or nonliving?
What is nonliving?
Why does a bird need a tree in its habitat?
It can use the tree for shelter or nesting.
How can a bird and a tree help each other?
The tree provides shelter, and the bird may spread seeds or eat insects that harm plants.
How can a rock help an animal?
It may provide shelter or a hiding place.
How can pollution hurt a pond habitat?
It can make the water unsafe for plants and animals.
A tiny seed grows into a plant. Is the plant living or nonliving? How do you know?
Living, because it grows and changes and needs water and other resources.
What might happen to rabbits if their grassy habitat no longer has plants to eat?
They may have trouble finding food and may need to move.
What might happen if all the plants disappeared from a rabbit's habitat?
Rabbits could lose food and shelter, and other animals that depend on plants could be affected too.
A plant needs soil, water, and sunlight. What does this teach us about living and nonliving things?
Living things depend on nonliving things to survive.
People build houses where a forest once stood. Explain one way this could affect the plants and animals that lived there.
They may lose food, shelter, or space to live.