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This Basic Science Lesson Notes CoversThe Following Topics
1. LIVING AND NON-LIVING THINGS (I)
2. LIVING AND NON-LIVING THINGS (II)
3. LIVING AND NON-LIVING THINGS (III)
4. LIVING AND NON-LIVING THINGS
5. HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
6. FAMILY HEALTH (SANITATION)
7. FAMILY HEALTH (II) – NUTRITION
8. FAMILY HEALTH – DRUG
9. REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM
10. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
11. SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS
12. HIV/AIDS
13. HIV/AIDS (II)
14. ENERGY
15. RENEWABLE AND NON-RENEWABLE ENEGRY
16. ENERGY AND SOCIETY
17. HUMAN REPRODUCTION (I)
18. HUMAN REPRODUCTION (II)
19. FORCES
20. GRAVITATIONAL FIELD
21. SPACE TRAVEL
22. GRAVITATION AND WEIGHTLESSNESS
23. EARTH IN SPACE
24. SATELLITE
25. CONSEQUENCES OF TEENAGE PREGNANCY
Sample note
Topic: Living and non-living things (II)
Contents
• Characteristics of living and non-living things
• Examples, characteristics and importance of plants and animals
Introduction
Both living and non-living things are important to human beings. Both plant and animals are living things because both have the same qualities of living things. on the other hand, we obtain food from living things but we also depend for successful living on non-living things. need air to breathe, we need water to drink, cook, wash our bodies clothes and so on; without iron and steel, we would not have our knife and refrigerators.
Characteristics of living and non-living things
The characteristics of living things are summarized below. Living things:
• Move
• Feed
• Respire
• Excrete waste substances
• Grow
• Reproduce
• Respond to their environment
Examples of Plant and Animals
Examples of Plants are:
— Carpet grass
— Bahama grass
— Hibiscus flower
— Ixora
— Mango
— Orange
— Pawpaw
Examples of Animal
Examples of Animals are:
— Cat
— Dog
— Sheep
— Goat
— Squirrel
— Elephant
— Snake
Importance of Plants
1. Plants and animals are important to human beings in many ways. These uses are briefly described below:
2. Plants provide human beings with food such as vegetables, fruits, tubers and so on. Examples include yam, tubers, cassava, rice, spinach, tomatoes etc.
3. Plants provide human beings with firewood
4. Plants provide human beings with timber
5. Plants produce materials which are useful to human beings such as fibers and latex (e.g. rubber)
6. Some medicine that cures human diseases are obtained from plants
7. Plants beautify the human environment
8. Roots of plant hold soil particles together and reduce soil erosion
9. Leaves of plants break the force of rain drops and thereby reduce soil erosion
10. Transpiration helps the water cycle and promotes rainfall which helps human beings to grow crops
11. Plants are eaten by our domestic animals
12. Plants remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere during photosynthesis and give out oxygen, thus helping to restore the proportion of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Importance of animals
1. Animals are eaten by human beings
2. Some animals e.g. donkey and camels are used by human beings as beasts of burden
3. Some animals are used for transporting human beings e.g. horses and camels
4. The dog is used to watch over property
5. Animals are sold to earn money e.g. goat, sheep, pigs, poultry.
Exercises
1. A living thing _____
a. moves
b. grows
c. respires
d. reproduces
e. does all the above
2. A plant differs from an animal because a plant _____
a. respires
b. grows
c. moves
d. reproduces
e. makes its food
3. Which of the following is not normally present in animal cells?
a. living matter
b. nucleus
c. cytoplasm
d. chlorophyll
e. cell membrane
4. Name four examples of plant and animals
5. Human beings are living things; true or false?
a. True
b. False
Answers
1. a
2. e
3. a
4. plants – herb, cowpea, maize, rose & animals – goat, snail, cow, lion
5. True
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