Exercises


Write answers:

  • Name the characteristics of living things.
  • Explain the difference between the growth of plant and animals.
  • How does excretion take place in plants ?
  • State the differences between living and non-living things.

 

Give reasons:

  • Plant cannot move from one place to another.
  • Death occurs in all living things.

 

Explain clearly what is:

  • �Growth
  • Responsiveness to stimuli
  • �Excretion
  • Reproduction

 

Give two examples of each:

  • Unicelluler living things
  • Multicellular living things
  • �Living things
  • Non-living things
  • Movements in animals
  • Movements in plants
  • Animals that lay eggs
  • Animals that give birth to young ones
  • Plants that excrete gum

 

Why do we see this happening ?

  • People look up when an aeroplane passes overhead, high up in the sky.
  • �When a beam of light flashes on the eyes, the eyes close quickly.
  • �When there is the slightest sound, a cat picks up its ears.
  • �If somebody shouts suddenly right behind us, we get started.