Living/Non Living things 1
What is Biology?
What is the study of living things
How do plants respire?
It involves using the sugars produced during photosynthesis plus oxygen to produce energy for plant growth
what is irritability?
What is
The ability of the cell or organism to receive and respond to a stimulus in its environment
What is Reproduction?
What is
The process of making the next generation
what type of plants are mango, akee and ornamental flowers;
a. flowering
b. non flowering
Name the features that makes living things different from Non-living things
What is
1. growth, 2. respiration, 3. irritability 4. movement 5. nutrition 6. Excretion 7. reproduction
How many characteristics do living things display or have?
what is
seven
Give two examples of Irritability
What is
- when an animal shivers when it is cold
- when a plant grows towards the light
All of the following are living things except
a. cow
B. snail
c. mushroom
d. diamond
what is
diamond
All flowering plants produce___________ and ______.
what is
flowers and seeds
What is growth?
what is:
a permanent increase in size due to an increase in the number of cells.
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Yeast and bacteria are.....................organisms;
what is
single-celled
Define Movement
What is
The ability to change position or travel over a distance
Yeast is a kind of
a. bacteria
b. virus
c. fungus
d. amoeba
what is
c. fungus
Mosses, pine trees and Conifers are__________
a. flowering
b. non-flowering
what is
non-flowering
What do all living things have in common?
what is
All living things have time periods when they grow
Name the characteristics of living things
what is
GRIMNER Growth, Respiration, Irritability (interaction with the environment), Movement, Nutrition, Excretion, Reproduction
What is nutrition?
what is
the assimilation by living organisms of food materials that enable them to grow, maintain themselves and reproduce. (Good Healthy Food)
Plants and animals are ..................... organisms.
a. single-celled
b. multicellular
what is
multicellular
pine trees/Conifers do not have flowers but they produce pine cones. Do pine cones have seeds?
what is
yes
define respiration
what is
It is a process in which living things release the energy they need from food (ATP) and oxygen and release carbon dioxide.
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Living organisms can be either many celled_________ or single celled___________
what is
multicellular and unicellular
Define Excretion?
what is
the process by which animals rid themselves of waste products and of the nitrogenous by-products of metabolism or toxic substances from the cells and tissues of a plant or animal.
what is yeast?
what is
Yeast is a microscopic, unicellular mushroom of ovoid or spherical shape.
Plants and animals are multicellular organisms.
what is Multicellular?
what is
having or consisting of many cells.