What Are The Life Processes in Animals & Plants?
What Are The Life Processes in Animals & Plants?
What Are The Life Processes in Animals & Plants?
4. All about
Hydrostatic No bones
Internal fluids held
within body
Plants move towards sunlight, roots grow into the soil. They move slower than animals.
Living things do this so that they will not become extinct.
o tubers (potatoes)
o rhizomes (onions,
ginger);
o runners (strawberries)
Living things notice and react/respond to changes around them.
i. The process by which nutrients taken in are converted to energy. Respiration is a chemical
reaction and occurs in every cell in living things.
ii. Plants respire all the time because their cells need energy to stay alive, but plants can only
photosynthesize when they are in the light.
* respiration is the opposite of photosynthesis.
i. In animals, excretion gets rid of carbon dioxide, water and harmful substances (the by-products
of respiration) from your body.
ii. Plants break down waste products at a much slower pace than animals. During:
Respiration (night) ------- Carbon dioxide + Water (*transpiration)
(stomata and root cell walls) (tips of the leaves)
Photosynthesis (day) --------- Oxygen (stomata, root cell walls and other routes)
Other plant wastes include resins, saps, latex and tannins (released into the soil surrounding the
plant; leaves and flowers fall off of a plant)
Photosynthesis
How can we tell living things from non-living things?
Non-
LivingThings living
Things
CONCLUSION:
Living Things may refer to: