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Consolidation Worksheet 1
What Living Things Can We Find
Around Us?
Look at the following statements. Are they true or false?
Put a tick (✓) in the correct column for each statement.

Statement True False

a. An environment is the surroundings

where living things live.
b. There are many different types of
environments.
c. The living things found in all
environments are the same.
d. The survival of living things is affected by
factors in their environment.
e. How a place looks is an example of an
environmental factor.
f. Living things do not need water, air and
food to survive.
g. Sunlight is an important environmental
factor for plants.

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Consolidation Worksheet 2
What Can We Find in a Garden?
The animals below can all be found in a garden. Which of them
can be found around a rotting log? Put a tick (✓) in the circle
beside each animal.

Grasshopper Woodlouse

Ladybird Beetle

Centipede Bee

Millipede Caterpillar

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Consolidation Worksheet 3
What Can We Find in a Pond?
Group these living things in the flowchart below according to
where they can be found in a pond.

Algae Fish Water hyacinth Water lily

Dragonfly Pondskater Water lettuce Tadpole

Living things in a pond

On the pond surface Inside the pond

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Consolidation Worksheet 4
What Can We Find on a Beach?
Which of these living things can be found on a beach?
Put a tick (✓) in the circle beside the living things.

Seaweed Rose

Frog Clam

Scorpion Crab

Flamingo Seagull

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Consolidation Worksheet 5
How Do Environments Affect
Living Things?
Circle the correct answers in the brackets and fill in the blanks.

a. Hibiscus plants grow better in (sand / soil).

This is because it contains more
n _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.

b. Coconut trees grow better in (sand / soil).

This is because it allows water to
d _ _ _ _ away.

c. Earthworms prefer to live in (sand / soil).

This is because earthworms need a
m _ _ _ _ environment.

d. If a clownfish is placed in a pond, it will (live / die).

This is because a clownfish needs
s _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ to survive.

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Consolidation Worksheet 6
Why Must We Care For the Environment?
Match the environmental problems on the left to the harm they
cause to living things on the right.
Environmental problems How they harm living things

Littering on the beach

Cutting down trees

Oil spills

Picking flowers

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Fun and Which Living Things Do Not Belong?

Games
Look at the picture of a pond below. Circle the living things
which do not belong in or near the pond.

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Consolidation Worksheet 1 Consolidation Worksheet 2

What Living Things Can We Find What Can We Find in a Garden?
Around Us? The animals below can all be found in a garden. Which of them
can be found around a rotting log? Put a tick (✓) in the circle
Look at the following statements. Are they true or false?
beside each animal.

Additional Teacher’s Resources

Put a tick (✓) in the correct column for each statement.

Statement True False

✓
a. An environment is the surroundings
where living things live. ✓ Grasshopper Woodlouse

b. There are many different types of

✓
environments.
c. The living things found in all ✓
✓ Ladybird Beetle
environments are the same.
d. The survival of living things is affected by
✓
factors in their environment.
e. How a place looks is an example of an
✓ ✓
environmental factor.
Centipede Bee
f. Living things do not need water, air and
✓
food to survive.
g. Sunlight is an important environmental
✓
factor for plants.
✓
Millipede Caterpillar

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Consolidation Worksheet 3 Consolidation Worksheet 4

What Can We Find in a Pond? What Can We Find on a Beach?
Group these living things in the flowchart below according to Which of these living things can be found on a beach?
where they can be found in a pond. Put a tick (✓) in the circle beside the living things.

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Algae Fish Water hyacinth Water lily
Dragonfly Pondskater Water lettuce Tadpole
✓
Seaweed Rose
Living things in a pond

✓
On the pond surface Inside the pond Frog Clam

Algae Fish
Water hyacinth Water lily
Dragonfly Tadpole ✓
Pondskater
Scorpion Crab
Water lettuce

✓
Flamingo Seagull

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Consolidation Worksheet 5 Consolidation Worksheet 6

How Do Environments Affect Why Must We Care For the Environment?
Living Things? Match the environmental problems on the left to the harm they
cause to living things on the right.
Circle the correct answers in the brackets and fill in the blanks.

Additional Teacher’s Resources

Environmental problems How they harm living things
a. Hibiscus plants grow better in (sand / soil).
This is because it contains more
n u_ _t _r _i e s
_ n_ _t _.

Littering on the beach

b. Coconut trees grow better in (sand / soil).
This is because it allows water to
d _r a_ _i n_ away.

Cutting down trees

c. Earthworms prefer to live in (sand / soil).

This is because earthworms need a
mo_ _i _s _t environment.

Oil spills

d. If a clownfish is placed in a pond, it will (live / die).

This is because a clownfish needs
s a_ _l _t w
_a_ _t e_ _r to survive.
Picking flowers

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Fun and Which Living Things Do Not Belong?

Games
Look at the picture of a pond below. Circle the living things
which do not belong in or near the pond.

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 Glossary
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Chapter 1:
Living Things and Their Environment

Algae Plants that have no roots, stems or leaves and grow in or near water

Environment The conditions, such as air, water and other organisms, that surround a
particular organism and influence its health and survival

Factor Something that influences a particular result or situation

Shore The land along the edge of a body of water such as a sea or a lake

Survive To continue to live

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