Week 2-4 Life Science Competition

All birds ______________________.

• can fly

• can make their own food

• has fur as their outer covering

• has feathers as their outer covering

All insects_____________________.

• can make their own food

• has 3 body parts and 6 legs

• has 2 body parts and 8 legs

• has 2 legs and a beak

Tick all boxes that are characteristics of living things.

• They respond to changes.

• They have an outer covering.

• They make their own food.

• They reproduce.

Ferns are different from mushrooms because ________________.

• They respond to changes.

• They reproduce by spores.

• They can make their own food.

• They cannot be seen under a microscope.

Flowering plants reproduce by ______________ but non-flowering plants reproduce by ______________.

• fruits........seeds.

• spores......seeds.

• seeds.....spores.

• fruits.....spores.

The grasshopper has ___________ stages in its life cycle. They are the egg, ___________ and adult.

• 3.....baby

• 4....nymph

• 3...nymph

• 4.....larva

The larva of a butterfly will shed its skin as it grows larger from eating. This process is called ___________.

• melting.

• moulting.

• moulding

• meowing.

Insects whose young resemble their adults have _____ stages in its life cycle.

• 3

• 2

• 4

From the statement below, which word would you change to make the sentence true?

In the large intestine, water is absorbed from the digested food.

• large

• water

• digested

Digestion ends at the _____________________.

• mouth

• small intestine

• stomach

• large intestine

• anus