LIVING THINGS

1. Circle the respiration words blue, the nutrition words green and the reproduction words red.

viviparous herbivores gills omnivores carnivores lungs oviparous

All animals need oxygen to live.

Amphibians have gills when they are young and later develop lungs.

Mammals produce milk to feed their babies.

Most vertebrate animals are omnivores or carnivores.

Oviparous animals lay soft or hard eggs.

3. Which is the odd one out?

4. Write what each animal is. Follow the example given.

a) When I’m hungry, I eat both animals and plants. It’s an omnivore!

b) To have babies, I lay eggs. It’s oviparous!

c) I can breathe in the water. It’s a fish!

d) I produce milk to feed my babies. It’s a mammal!

e) When I was a baby, I could breathe in water, but now I can’t. It’s an amphibian.

LIVING THINGS

1. Order the words and write sentences.

a) to seed pollen the a ovule joins the make

The pollen joins the ovule to make a seed.

b) reproduction sexual some and use plants asexual

Some plants use sexual and asexual reproduction.

c) fertilisation in no are reproduction flowers asexual there or

In asexual reproduction there are no flowers or fertilisation.

2. Are these sentences true or false? Correct the false ones.

a) The pollen goes from the pistil to the stamen. False. The pollen goes from the stamen to the pistil.

b) The pollen joins an ovule to make a seed. This is called pollination. False. This is called fertilisation.

c) Runners are stems which grow along the ground. True

d) Tubers are swollen stems which grow above the ground. False. Tubers are swollen stems which grow below the ground.

e) Plants absorb carbon dioxide and produce oxygen. True