Living Things and Non-living Things
Living Things and Non-living Things: Overview
This topic covers concepts such as Characteristics of Living Things, Comparison between Characteristics of Living and Non-living Things and Living and Non-living Things.
Important Questions on Living Things and Non-living Things
What does living things depend on?

Which is the odd one among the given options?

Plants are non-living things that purify air.

What all peculiarities of living and non-living things do you know? Complete the table shown below.
Peculiarities of the living | Peculiarities of the non-living |
Grow | |
New ones are formed | |
Do not move | |
Do not respond | |
Do not take food | |

Name any three non-living things in your classroom.

Unscramble the words given in the bracket to form four living and non-living things each and write them in the given table.
[tplna, okob, bltea, grfefia, oumes, lokcc, saowprr, verir]
Living things | Non-living things |

Sort the following things into living and non-living.
Car, Teddy bear, Banana tree, Dog, Cooler. Television, Rabbit, Chair, Water, Robot.

Which of the following is not a living thing?

Puppies grow into dogs _____ grow into cats.

How can you identify the living beings and non-living things?

We see many things around us. Mention some living things and non-living things in the table given below.
Living thing | Non-living thing |
Plant | Chair |
Insects | Table |
Animals | Rock |
Human beings | Vehicles |
Birds | Clothes |

Choose the odd one out.

Choose the odd one out.

Cars and buses run on the road. Rivers and streams flow. Hands in a clock move circularly. Rivers and streams flow. Do they have a life? What is the difference between the movement of living beings and non-living things?

Make a list of living beings and non-living beings you have seen.

In the following chart, some components of the environment and some living characteristics are given. Read carefully. If in each of the component the characteristics given in front are found, put (ü) mark. If these characteristics are not found, put (û) mark.
Components of the environment | Characteristics | ||||||
Growth | Eating food | Movement | Respiration | Excretion | Response to stimulus | Reproduction | |
Mouse | |||||||
Mango | |||||||
Brick | |||||||
Clock | |||||||
Butterfly | |||||||
Man | |||||||
Frog | |||||||
Paper | |||||||
Mobile |

Fill in the blank with an appropriate option:
Air, water, and soil are part of the _____(living/non-living/consumer) component of the environment.

Choose the odd one out.

Choose the odd one out.

Things around us that affect life on the Earth make up the _____
