Living and Non-living Things

Read the following statements. Choose the characteristic of living things that is being described in each number.

Humans can perform different locomotor and non-locomotor movements.

• Living things can grow.

• Living things can move.

• Living things breathe air.

Madelyn wears a jacket whenever the weather is cold.

• Living things can breathe air.

• Living things react to their environment.

• Living things need energy to be able to function.

People and animals take in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide. On the other hand, plants take in carbon dioxide and give off oxygen.

• Living things can grow.

• Living things breathe air.

• Living things reproduce their own kind.

My youngest brother is taller than my mom now.

• Living things can move

• Living things can grow.

• Living things react to their environment.

Leonard eats breakfast every morning before going to work.

• Living things breathe air.

• Living things reproduce their own kind.

• Living things need energy to be able to function.

Identify if the object below is a living thing or a non-living thing.

worm

• living thing

• non-living thing

keyboard

• living thing

• non-living thing

wallet

• living thing

• non-living thing

singer

• living thing

• non-living thing

tree

• living thing

• non-living thing