Life Processes

Science Unit 1
Characteristics of life

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Watch the power point about the 7 life processes
Life Processes.ppt

Let’s review:

The 7 processes that make something alive are:

MRS NERG!
Answer the question in your notebook:

What does it mean to be alive?

Life Process- A function that a living thing performs to stay alive and produce more of
it’s own kind.

Read page A6 in the text book

Why does the yellow duck have more in common with the grass than the bronze duck?

Meet MRS NERG

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 MOVEMENT – Release Energy

Plants release energy

through their life Animals release energy by
processes like growth movement.
and photosynthesis.

Photosynthesis Movement
Reproduction
Growth

PLANTS ANIMALS
 PHOTOSYNTHESIS
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Photosynthesis- The process plants
use to make food.

A plant needs light

energy from the sun
plus carbon
dioxide(CO2), plus
water. The plant will
make sugar and oxygen.
REPRODUCTION- To make
more
Living things must reproduce because they would
otherwise go extinct.
baby

child
adult

adolescent
Reproduction • Creates more of the same species
in Animals
Reproduction • Pollination, seed dispersal, germination
in plants
SENSITIVITY- reacting to your
surroundings
Stimulus and response
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1. Stimulus- Anything that causes a living thing to react

2. External Stimulus- Anything in an organism’s environment that causes it to

react. Example: ________________

3. Internal Stimulus- Anything within an organism that causes it to react.

Example: Hunger

• React to light, water,

Plants
weather
• Use their 5 senses to
Animals
react
How do living things detect stimuli?

A cold wind
blows on you

A plant needs
water

A moth detects
a bat’s sound
waves Venus Flytrap

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A dog sees a
can of food
opening
 NUTRITION-Taking in
nutrients

Makes seeds
Moves water
from roots
and leaves

Makes food through

Photosynthesis. It needs
water + sun + carbon
dioxide
Suck up water
and minerals
Digestive System- Breaks down food and gives
nutrients to the body and gives animals energy.

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With a partner, read A32 to A36. Copy and complete the
chart below in your notebook. Hint: Use the chart on A 33
to help.

Main Idea: The digestive system breaks down food and gives
nutrients to the body which gives us energy.

Detail 1 Detail 2 Detail 3

Answer these questions:

• What category of food do you eat most of?
• Least of?
• What can you do to make your diet better?
 EXCRETION- Creates waste
and RESPIRATION- breathing
Respiratory System- A group of organs that
work together to bring air in and push it back
out of the body.

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 HOW YOU RATE Activity Page A 39

PULSE BREATHING

Beats in 15 Beats in 1 Breaths in 15 Breaths in 1

sec min sec min
At rest

After exercise

Read A 40-A41 in text with a partner.

Compare and contrast how fish and humans breathe.
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EXCRETION=CREATES WASTE
ANIMALS PLANTS
• CREATE OXYGEN
THROUGH
• CREATE SOLID PHOTOSYNTHESIS
WASTE
• CARBON DIOXIDE
CREATED
THROUGH
BREATHING
GROWTH- The development of a living
thing often by growing in size and
maturity.
Animals need to grow to reproduce , care for selves and
be productive.

Question: How is your growth similar to a seed growing?

Read text A18-21

Complete questions: 1,3, 4, 5 on page A23 with a prtner