What is a living thing?

In this lesson, we will be learning about living things and the features of living things. All living things need to be able to breathe, produce waste, grow and change, feed and reproduce. We will then finish the lesson looking in more detail at different types of diets that animals may have.

What is a living thing?

In this lesson, we will be learning about living things and the features of living things. All living things need to be able to breathe, produce waste, grow and change, feed and reproduce. We will then finish the lesson looking in more detail at different types of diets that animals may have.

Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. Features of a living thing
  2. What animals need to survive

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3 Questions

Q1.
1) Do you have to be able to breathe, to be a living thing? True or false.
False, you do not need to be able to breathe to be a living thing.
Correct answer: True, all living things breathe.
Q2.
2) What does a herbivore eat?
A herbivore eats both meat and plants
A herbivore only eats meat
Correct answer: A herbivore only eats plants
Q3.
2) What does a carnivore eat?
A carnivore eats both meat and plants
Correct answer: A carnivore only eats meat
A carnivore only eats plants

Lesson appears in

UnitScience / The animal kingdom

Science