Seven Life Processes
- Created by: Z Shah
- Created on: 12-04-15 18:06
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- 7 Life Processes
- Movement
- Animals use energy to move their whole body from place to place
- Plants can only move parts of their body
- Plants move towards light and water
- Plants move by growing - occurs slowly
- Respiration
- Process of releasing energy from food or stored chemicals in cells for immediate use by the organism
- Usually needs oxygen
- Sensitivity
- Plants and animals need information about the surrounding environment to survive
- Respond to different stimuli
- Plants respond much slower
- Growth
- Animals usually reach a certain size and then stop growing
- Plants carry on growing their whole lives
- Reproduction
- Making new offspring so the species continues
- Can be sexual or asexual
- Nutrition
- Organisms must take in energy to stay alive
- Plants take in simple compounds and make complicated compounds
- Animals eat other plants and animals and get complex compounds from them
- Excretion
- Getting rid of toxic waste
- Could be gas (CO2)
- Special Compounds (Urea)
- Water
- Plants excrete toxins into leaves which they drop in the winter.
- Movement
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