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Understanding Nutrition and Life Processes

The document outlines essential life processes for living things, including nutrition, movement, growth, respiration, excretion, and reproduction. Nutrition provides energy for movement and growth, while respiration utilizes oxygen and sugar for energy. Excretion eliminates waste, and reproduction ensures the continuation of species.

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Understanding Nutrition and Life Processes

The document outlines essential life processes for living things, including nutrition, movement, growth, respiration, excretion, and reproduction. Nutrition provides energy for movement and growth, while respiration utilizes oxygen and sugar for energy. Excretion eliminates waste, and reproduction ensures the continuation of species.

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Nutrition

Living things need nutrition.

Nutrition simply means eating!

The food and water taken in by

animals are converted into

energy. Animals need energy to

move and grow.


Movement

Humans and other animals

can move on their own. They

require energy to move. Why is

movement important?
Growth

Nutrition helps living things

to grow. When a living thing

grows, it becomes larger in size.

It also gains weight, which

makes it heavier.
Respiration

Your body gets its energy by

making use of oxygen from the

air you breathe in and sugar

from the food you eat. Water

and carbon dioxide are also

produced as a result. This

process is known as respiration.


Excretion

Living things produce waste

materials in their bodies. They

get rid of these waste materials

by passing them out of their

bodies into the environment.

This process is called excretion.


Reproduction

Reproduction is the process

of producing a young from its

parents. All living things will die

one day. If one type of animal

did not reproduce itself, soon

there would be no more of its

kind left. When this happens, we

say that the animal has become

extinct.

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