1. What are 4 characteristics of a cat?
feature or quality belonging typically to a person, place, or thing and serving to identify it.
What are 4 characteristics of a cat?

2. Bubble Map Use pictures and Words
Characteristics of
Living Things

3. Looking at living things
LIFE PROCESSES
Looking at living things

4. Living things
Although all living things look different from each other, they all have seven things in common.
These seven things are called life processes.
Something is only alive if it does all seven

5. THE SEVEN LIFE PROCESSES

6. 1
All living things move

7. Animals move their whole bodies to get from one place to another.
Plants turn towards the light and their roots grow down into the soil.

8. All living things reproduce2
All living things reproduce

9. Animals have babies.
New plants grow from seeds.

10. All living things are sensitive3
All living things are sensitive

11. All living things respond to changes in their surroundings and react to them.
Ex: Plants grow towards the light.
Ex: People react to the temperature around them.

12. All living things need nutrition4
All living things need nutrition

13. Food is used to provide energy.
Green plants make their own food using sunlight.
Animals eat plants or other animals.

14. All living things excrete5
All living things excrete

15. Waste substances must be removed from the body.
Plants and animals both need to get rid of waste gas, water, and other materials

16. All living things respire6
All living things respire

17. Plants and animals use the oxygen in the air to turn food into energy.

18. 7
All living things grow

19. Babies grow into adults.
Seedlings grow into plants.

20. The seven life processes
1 Move
2 Reproduce
3 Sensitive
4 Nutrition
5 Excrete
6 Respire
7 Grow

21. Use the first letter from each process to help you remember them.
Move
Reproduce
Sensitive
Nutrition
Excrete
Respire
Grow
They spell MRS NERG

22. This is MRS NERG !
Can you remember what each of the letters in her name stand for ?

23. Exit Ticket Compare these two items to see which one is living and which is non-living.
Water
Slytherin (the snake)
MrsNerg

24. Exit Ticket Write 2-3 sentences explaining which item is living
And which item is not living.

25. Move
Reproduce
Sensitive
Nutrition
Excrete
Respire
Grow

26. Well done !