Biology (Chapter 1: Cells and Life Processes)

AnNahl 2011

1.1 : Characteristics of living things

SECTION B

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Answer the following questions

1

All living things carry out certain life processes.

Name the life process given in the following definitions.

i
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The intake of the food

ii

The release of energy from food

iii

The release of waste products

iv

The ability to react to the surroundings

The production of offspring

(5
Marks)

2 List three things that are excreted from an animal and one that is

excreted from a plant.

Animal

Plant

(4 Marks)

Biology (Chapter 1: Cells and Life Processes)

AnNahl 2011

3 Explain how each of the following get their food:

i

Plants

ii

Animals

(3 marks)

An alien landed on Earth and tried to work out if a washing machine

is alive. What questions should it (the alien) ask to find out if it (the
washing machine) is a living thing?

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(7 marks)