Understanding Living Things

What do you think you (human) are a plant or a animal.

All living things need air to breathe. How do fish in water breathe?

Harini wonders why her puppy ate food, but her doll did not. Do you know why?

When you touch a very hot object, your skin feels it and immediately sends a message to the bottom part of the brain. That part realises that your hand can get burnt. In a flash it sends a message to the hand muscles to move the hand away. The muscles act and your hand is saved.

Find out what this process is called and how long it takes.

Every day you carry your bag to school. Why can't it go on its own?

Find some living and non-living things in this grid.

Solve the crossword puzzle.

Across:

1. We need this to breathe.

2. It rhymes with rust.

3. They can make us sick.

4. It pollutes the air.

Down:

5. Moving air

6. Wind with thunder.

Which one that cannot eat food and why?

Draw lines to match the pictures on the left with the pictures on the right. One line is drawn for you.
 

You see so many plants around you. How do they keep increasing in numbers?

What can an animal do that a plant cannot?

Growth makes living things smaller.

While playing hide and seek, Rohan wanted to hide inside a box. But, his friend Sohan said that it was dangerous to do so. Why do you think it is not safe to lock oneself in a box?   
 

What all peculiarities of living and non-living things do you know? Complete the table shown below.

Unscramble the words given in the bracket to form four living and non-living things each and write them in the given table.

[tplna, okob, bltea, grfefia, oumes, lokcc, saowprr, verir]
 

To grow, living things need 

How many feet does an elephant have?

Living things need air to 

Name the organs of breathing for the following:

Humans  

Name the organs of breathing for the following: 

Insects