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Life Processes
 Signs of life
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• Serious efforts to discover life on other planets

have been going on for many years.

• If extra-terrestrial beings really were

discovered how would scientists decide if
they were alive?

A simple way of sorting everything on our planet

is to divide it into 2 groups
– living things and non-living things.
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Life Processes
All living things have to perform seven life processes.
Do you know what they are?

Each letter in the phrase ‘MRS

Movement
GREN’ gives you the first letter of
Respiration one of the life processes.
Sensitivity
Growth If something does not perform all of
the seven life processes then it is
Reproduction
not alive.
Excretion
Nutrition For something to be classed as
Dead it must have been alive
once !!
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The 7 Life Processes

Movement

Respiration

Sensitivity

Growth

Reproduction

Excretion

Nutrition
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Exercise 1: Animal Movement

1. Why do animals move?
To find food, water, shelter, to hide from predators
and to reproduce.
2. Copy and complete the table below:

Type of Example of
movement animal
Walking Humans
Crawling Insect
Running Horse
Flying Bird
Swimming Fish
Jumping Kangaroo
Swinging Chimpanzee
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Plant Movement
1. Do plants move?
•Yes, plants do move, but
very slowly compared to
most animals.

2. Why do plants move?

•Plants move towards
sunlight which they
need to make food.
•Some flowers close
during the night.
•Roots will move towards water
and gravity.
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Respiration
•Respiration is the process by which
energy is released from our food.
•This energy is used for the organism to
perform the other life processes.

•Most of our food is digested down to glucose.

•This joins with oxygen to release the energy and gives

off the waste products carbon dioxide and water.

Glucose + Oxygen  ENERGY + Carbon dioxide + Water

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Match the word to its correct meaning:

1 respiration A
D is a process
the poisonous
thatby-product
releases energy
of respiration.
from food.

2 oxygen B
C is needed
take materials
to release
to andenergy
from respiring
from glucose
cells. in
the body.
3 carbon dioxide C
A is a
needed
poisonous
to release
by-product
energyof from
respiration.
glucose in
the body.
4 water D
E themade
is process
whenthat
energy
releases
is released
energy from
from food.
food.

5 energy E
F is needed
made when
to doenergy
the rest
is of
released
MRS GREN.
from food.

6 transport systems F
B is needed
take materials
to dotothe
andrest
from
of respiring
MRSGREN. cells.
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Exercise 2: Respiration
1. Which gas is required for respiration?
Oxygen.
2. What are the waste products of respiration?
Water and Carbon dioxide.
3. Write a word equation for the process of respiration.
Food + Oxygen  Energy + Carbon dioxide + Water

4. What is the chemical test for carbon dioxide gas?

It turns limewater milky (and then clear again).
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True or false?

1. Respiration means breathing. FALSE

2. Respiration occurs in all body cells. TRUE
3. Respiration gives out oxygen. FALSE
4. Carbon dioxide is used up by respiration. FALSE
5. Respiration is a chemical process that TRUE
releases energy.
6. Plants do not respire. FALSE
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move reproduce sensitivity nutrition excreted
respiration grow
Living things ____________ to produce offspring.
Animals also _________ to catch food, to find a mate and also
to escape any predators.
As we get older, we ______ to reach our full size.
We use energy to do different things. Releasing energy from
food is called ____________ and eating the food we require
is called __________ .
Any waste produced is ________ from our bodies.
Living things must also react to what happens to them.
This is called _________ .
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Sensitivity
Sensitivity is the ability of living things to detect changes in
their surroundings and respond to these changes.

Humans have five senses; do you know what they are?

Touch Skin
Which organs are
Taste Tongue
associated with these
Smell Nose senses?
Sight Eyes
Hearing Ears
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Exercise 3: Sensitivity
1. What is sensitivity?
Being able to detect and respond to your surroundings.
2. Complete the table below:
Sense Body part
Sight Eye
Hearing Ear
Taste Tongue
Smell Nose
Touch Skin

3. Name two animals that can hear ultrasound.

Dogs and bats.
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Growth
Animals grow until they
reach adulthood and then
stop growing.

Plants continue to grow

throughout their lives.
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Animal Reproduction
All organisms need to reproduce. Reproduction is the making of
new organisms. If organisms did not reproduce, then once
those organisms died there would be no more of the species left.
Some animals reproduce by
laying eggs.
Example: Birds

Some animals reproduce by

giving birth to live young.
Example: Mammals

Mammals suckle their young

- the females provide milk for
their offspring. Adult and young kangaroo
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Exercise 5: Link the Matching Pairs

Acorn Lion

Cub Seal

Calf Oak tree

Baby Human

Pup Whale
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Plant Reproduction
Some plants reproduce using the wind to carry pollen from one
flower to another.
Some plants reproduce using insects or birds to carry pollen
from one flower to another.

Why are insects attracted to flowers?

They are attracted by scent, colour and nectar.
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Excretion
Excretion is the process where an organism gets rid of waste
products that would otherwise cause it harm.

Breathe through a tube into

a beaker of limewater. What
do you observe?

What happened to the limewater? It went milky.

What does this tell you?
There is more carbon dioxide in the air we breathe out than the
air we breathe in.
Carbon dioxide is a waste product of respiration. What is the
other waste product? HINT! Breathe on a mirror.
The waste products of respiration are carbon dioxide and
water.
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Exercise 6: Removing Waste

1. What do we call the process that remove waste
products from an organism?
Excretion.
2. What are the waste products of respiration?
Water and carbon dioxide.

3. How do we remove carbon dioxide from our body?

We breathe it out.

4. What would happen if we did not remove this carbon

dioxide?
It would poison our bodies and eventually kill us.
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Nutrition
Nutrition is the obtaining of food to keep an organism healthy.

Animals eat food. Some animals eat other animals. What do we

call these types of animals?

CARNIVORES.
Some animals eat
plants What do we call
these animals?

HERBIVORES.

Animals that eat plants

and animals are called
A carnivore
OMNIVORES.
Green plants make their own food using sunlight, water and
carbon dioxide. This process is called PHOTOSYNTHESIS.
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Exercise 7: Link the Word with the Description

Plant-eating animals
Carnivore

Meat-eating animals
Omnivore

The gas needed by green

Photosynthesis plants to make food

Animals that eat

Carbon dioxide
meat and plants

Herbivore The process by which green

plants make food using sunlight
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Exercise 8: Insert the Key Words

Animals must eat food to gain nutrition. Animals that

eat plants are called _________.
herbivores Animals that eat
____ are called carnivores. Animals that eat meat
meat
and plants are called _________.
omnivores
Green plants gain nutrition by making their own food
using _______,
sunlight water and oxygen. This process is
photosynthesis
called _____________.

meat omnivores photosynthesis

herbivores sunlight