Characteristics of Living Things  

Living things need air, food and water to live. Living things will die quickly without air and water. However, they can survive for a shot period without food.

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Living things can grow. As they grow, their shapes, sizes and appearances may change.

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Living things are able to move by themselves. They move around to look for food, water and shelter. Sometimes, they move to try to escape from their predators.

Living things can respond to changes around them.

Living things will die when they become old and as their body parts fail to work.

Living things are able to reproduce to have young.

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In the next section, we will look at some characteristics of non-living things.

 

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Things Around us can be divided into:
    a.small and big things
    b.things on land and things in sea
    c.air, food and water
    d.living and non-living things

  


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