Living and nonliving things

Alan saw a snail crawling on the ground. He touched it gently and observed that the snail moved into its shell immediately. What does this tell you about living things?

• Living things grow.

• Living things reproduce.

• Living things respond to changes.

• Living things need air, food and water.

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A car is a non-living thing because it _________________ .

• cannot grow

• cannot move

• needs air to survive

• needs water to survive

Alan placed 100g of food and 100ml of water in three containers, X, Y and Z. He recorded the amount of food and water left at the end of a week.

Based on the information in the table, which container(s) contain a living thing?

• X and Y only

• X and Z only

• Y and Z only

• X, Y and Z

Tina picked up a dry leaf. Her teacher said that it was a non-living things because it _____________.

A: can move on its own

B: cannot grow anymore

C: cannot reproduce anymore

• A and B only

• A and C only

• B and C only

• A, B and C

Mary put a plant into a box as shown in Diagram A and watered it daily. After a week, she observed some changed in the plant as shown in Diagram B.

She carried out this experiment to show that plants _____________________ .

• can reproduce

• only need water to grow

• grow and respond to changes

• can only grow when placed in a box

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Other than air, all living things need _______________ to survive.

A: food

B: water

C: sunlight

• A and B only

• A and C only

• B and C only

• A, B and C

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The diagram shows that the adult frog can _____________________.

• grow

• reproduce

• respond to changes

• move by themselves

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Angela conducted an experiment as shown in the diagram.

Based on the experiment, Angela is trying to find out if the mouse needs ____________ to survive.

• air

• food

• water

• a box

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Which of the following is a living thing?

• Cave

• Fern

• Stone

• Ocean

Farah observed her pet cat. Which of her observations does not show that her cat is a living thing?

• It drinks milk.

• It has four legs.

• It licks itself to clean its body.

• It runs when it sees stranger.