Year 4 Living Things and Their Habitats Revision

What are the seven life processes?

(Hint: MRS GREN)

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS1-7

Choose true or false next to each statement.

All changes to the environment are caused by humans. ​ (a)  

All changes to the environment are negative. ​ (b)  

When habitats change, it can be dangerous for living things. ​ (c)  

• false
• true

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Match the following

• A word used to describe a living thing

• life processes

• A specific area or place in which particular animals and plants may live

• environment

• Areas that contain many habitats of both living and non-living things

• organisms

• The actions that living things do to stay alive

• habitat

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Explain what ‘endangered species’ means.

Answer explanation

Answers should refer to plants or animals

where there are not many species left so

may become extinct. They could mention

causes for the endangerment, including

habitats being threatened or species

being hunted.

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NGSS.HS-LS2-7

NGSS.HS-LS4-5

Select under the human-made changes to the environment

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Explain what the word ‘extinct’ means.

Answer explanation

The word extinct means there are none of that species left in the world because they have all died.

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

List the five groups vertebrates can be divided into.

Answer explanation

mammals

fish

birds

reptiles

amphibians

Match the following

• features or qualities

  of a species

• classification

• animals with a backbone

• invertebrates

• grouping living things

  based on their similarities

• specimen

• a plant or animal that

  scientists study to find out

  more about a species

• vertebrates

• animals without

  a backbone

• characteristics

Select all of the invertebrates.

Use the classification key to identify this ‘imaginary’ living creature and draw a circle around its name.