Classify these into living and nonliving things.
a) A hole created by the rust in a metal pipe.
b) An apple on a tree.
c) A running washing machine.
d) A growing sugar crystal.
e) A virus.
f) Bacteria.
g) Lightning.
h) A dinosaur fossil.
i) A wasp.
j) Clouds growing bigger.
Important Questions on Characteristics of Living Things
Read the following statements and identify the characteristic of life indicated in each.
‘In only one year that boy grew five inches.’_____.
Read the following statements and identify the characteristic of life indicated in each.
‘Yesterday, our cat had a litter of kittens.’_____.
Read the following statements and identify the characteristic of life indicated in each.
‘Exercise regularly to build up your lung power.’_____.
Read the following statements and identify the characteristic of life indicated in each.
‘You will be able to live longer if you eat a healthy breakfast.’_____.
Read the following statement and identify the characteristic of life.
‘My kitten ran to hide under the porch when that car pulled in the driveway.’ _____. (Growth/Response to stimuli/Reproduction/Digestion)
Read the following statements and identify the characteristic of life indicated in each.
There is a pond behind the school where single-celled organisms live.’_____.
Read the following statements and identify the characteristic of life indicated in each.
‘You look so much like your dad, you must have got his genes.’_____.
‘A giraffe is helped by its long neck to reach and eat leaves from the high branches of a tree.’ _____. (Growth/Reproduction)
