NST term 1 - life & living structures

Question 1

What is bread mould?

Answer 1

A fungus that grow on bread and other food.

Question 2

What are germs?

Answer 2

Very small living things that can cause diseases.

Question 3

What is reproducing?

Answer 3

Producing babies or young animals or plants.

Question 4

What is excreting?

Answer 4

Getting rid of body waste such a urine.

Question 5

What is the environment?

Answer 5

Everything around us.

Question 6

What is sensing?

Answer 6

Being able to see, hear, touch taste or smell things.

Question 7

What is germinating?

Answer 7

When a seed starts to grow.

Question 8

What is an organism?

Answer 8

A living thing.

Question 9

What does it mean to hatch?

Answer 9

A chick breaks out of an egg in which it was growing.

Question 10

What are life processes?

Answer 10

Things that all living things do that show us that they are alive.

Question 11

What are the life processes?

Answer 11

Growing
Reproducing
Feeding
Moving
Breathing
Excreting
Sensing

Question 12

What are non-living things?

Answer 12

Things that cannot carry out the seven life processes.

Question 13

What are the 6 basic parts of a plant’s structure?

Answer 13

Leaves
Flower
Stem
Fruit
Seed
Roots

Question 14

What is the function of a plant’s stem?

Answer 14

The stem supports the leaves and carries water, minerals and food throughout the plants.

Question 15

What does a flower do?

Answer 15

Flowers make seeds to continue the life cycle.

Question 16

Why do plants have roots?

Answer 16

The roots anchor the plant and absorb water and minerals from the soil.

Question 17

What do leaves do?

Answer 17

The leaves absorb sunlight and carbon dioxide to make food for the plant.

Question 18

What are limbs?

Answer 18

Body parts such as legs, arms, fins and wings that are used for movement.

Question 19

What are sense organs?

Answer 19

Parts of the body that are used to sense the environment. The sense organs allow people to see, feel, hear and smell things.

Question 20

What are observations?

Answer 20

Using your senses to look at something closely to find information about it.

Question 21

What does it mean to communicate?

Answer 21

To share information or ideas.

Question 22

What is a label?

Answer 22

Writing about something to give information about it.

Question 23

Name 3 examples of types of animal body covering.

Answer 23

Hair
Feathers
Scales

Question 24

Do all animals have limbs?

Answer 24

No e.g. snakes that slither

Question 25

What sense organs do all animals have?

Answer 25

Eyes Nose Mouth

Question 26

What is a cutting?

Answer 26

A part of a plant that we cut off and use to grow a new plant. Plants with soft stems and leaves grow better from cutings.

Question 27

What is a seedling and what does it need to grow?

Answer 27

The new plant that grows when a seed germinates. Seeds use food stored inside the seed + water + warmth + air to growh.

Question 28

What is a plumule?

Answer 28

The first shoot a seedling grows.

Question 29

What is a radicle?

Answer 29

The first root a seedling grows.

Question 30

What do plants need to grow?

Answer 30

Water Food Sunlight Air

Question 31

What is a habitat?

Answer 31

The place where a plant or animal lives. Animals get all the things they need to live from their habitat.

Question 32

What are predators?

Answer 32

Animals that catch and eat other animals

Question 33

What is a Venn diagram?

Answer 33

Drawing made up of overlapping circles, useful to show comparisons between things.

Question 34

Name 4 types of habitat.

Answer 34

Grassland Forest Rivers The sea

Question 35

What is a shelter?

Answer 35

A place where you are safe from bad weather or danger.

Question 36

What does indigenous mean?

Answer 36

Living and growing in the area that someone or something is originally from.

Question 37

Why do animals need a habitat?

Answer 37

They get all the things they need to live from their habitat such as - food and water - shelter from bad weather - escape from danger - safe places to have their young and care for them

Question 38

Describe Grassland habitats.

Answer 38

They have LOTS of types of grasses and very few trees. Rains in SUMMER. Only get enough rainfall for grasses to grow (not trees). Gets hot in summer and cold in winter.

Question 39

Describe Forest habitats.

Answer 39

Forest habitats have lots of TREES and small plants. They get rain all year round. It doesn't get very hot or very cold. There are MANY birds. Smaller animals also live in forests. Forests are good places to hide from predators.

Question 40

Describe River habitats and the animals that live there.

Answer 40

River habitats have FRESH water. The TEMPERATURE of the water does not change much. Plants grow in the water and on riverbanks. Some animals live IN the water = fish, water snails and tadpoles. Some animals live in the area SURROUNDING the rive = frogs and many types of birds. Some animals live ABOVE the water = ducks and insects.

Question 41

Describe Sea/Ocean habitats.

Answer 41

The sea has SALTY WATER. TEMPERATURE of the sea water does not change much. Many different animals live in the sea and eat other living things in their habitat.

Question 42

Name examples of animals that live in Grasslands.

Answer 42

Impala, buffalo and zebra that eat grass. And predators such as lion that catch and eat grass-eating animals.

Question 43

Name examples of animals that live in Forests and what do they eat?

Answer 43

Monkeys & bush pigs eat insects, worms and lizzards Bush buck and duikers. Eat leaves, fruit and seed that fall from the trees.

Question 44

What do different types of river animals eat?

Answer 44

Birds like kingfisher CATCH the fish that live in the water. Fish and hippos eat the plants that grow in the water and on the riverbanks. Animals eat other animals that come to drink the water.

Question 45

List examples of animals that live in the sea and what they eat.

Answer 45

Fish & Turtles - eat plants Seals & Dolphins - eat fish Sharks - eat seals and fish Whales - eat fish Octopus - hides under rocks and waits for the fist to fish to swim past to CATCH THEM.