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Year 7 Science — Living and non-living

Use the features of living beings to sort living from non-living, and follow a life cycle round from one stage to the next.

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Before you start

Which way each part of this germinating seed grows.

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  1. 1. Shoot
  2. 2. Seed
  3. 3. Root

The shoot grows upwards into the air and the root downwards into the soil. Turn the seed upside down before planting it and the root still finds its way down.

  1. 1.The touch-me-not folds its leaves when you brush against them. What does that show?

    • a) Plants respond to stimuli, as animals do
    • b) The leaves have died at that moment
    • c) The plant is trying to move somewhere else
    • d) The plant is excreting

  2. 2.A mosquito's life cycle joins up, so start it from the egg and put the four stages in order from there.

    • Adult
    • Pupa
    • Egg
    • Larva

  3. 3.A tadpole has a tail and lives in water. What is true of the adult frog it becomes?

    • a) It goes back to being a tadpole each year
    • b) It lives on land and cannot enter water
    • c) It lives both in water and on land
    • d) It keeps the tail and stays in water

  4. 4.A frog's life cycle joins up too. Start from the eggs and put the four stages in order from there.

    • Eggs
    • Froglet
    • Tadpole
    • Adult frog

  5. 5.Anything that prompts a living being to respond has a one-word name. What is it?

  6. 6.Sort each of these into living and non-living.

    Groups: Living · Non-living

    • Car
    • Pigeon
    • Plant
    • Pencil
    • Book

  7. 7.Match each word to what it means.

    • Stimulus
    • Excretion
    • Reproduction
    • getting rid of the body's waste
    • what keeps a kind of living being going
    • anything that prompts a living being to respond

  8. 8.An animal's life cycle runs from a newborn, through growth and development, to an adult. What does the chapter give as its final stage?

    • a) The pupa
    • b) Germination
    • c) Death
    • d) A return to being a newborn

Answer key — Year 7 Science — Living and non-living

  1. 1. a) Plants respond to stimuli, as animals do
  2. 2. 1. Egg 2. Larva 3. Pupa 4. Adult
  3. 3. c) It lives both in water and on land
  4. 4. 1. Eggs 2. Tadpole 3. Froglet 4. Adult frog
  5. 5. stimulus
  6. 6. Pigeon → Living; Plant → Living; Pencil → Non-living; Book → Non-living; Car → Non-living
  7. 7. Stimulus → anything that prompts a living being to respond; Excretion → getting rid of the body's waste; Reproduction → what keeps a kind of living being going
  8. 8. c) Death