SCI04 · ScienceReels

Living things share something special: they grow, need food and water, breathe air, and can reproduce (make more of themselves). Rocks, water, and clouds are nonliving — they do none of these.

Here is the big difference between plants and animals: plants make their own food using sunlight, water, and air. Animals must find and eat food — they cannot make it. Both need water and air to survive.

What does a plant need? Sunlight, water, air, and soil. What does an animal need? Food, water, air, shelter, and space. If a living thing does not get what it needs, it will become weak and may die.

Most plants have five main parts, and each has a job: roots (absorb water), stem (carry water), leaves (make food), flower (make seeds), and fruit/seeds (new plants!).

A habitat is where an animal or plant lives and finds what it needs. Four habitats to know: ocean (saltwater, very large), pond (freshwater, small), forest (trees, cool), and field (grass, open, sunny).

Every animal lives in the habitat that provides what it needs. A frog needs freshwater → pond. A shark needs saltwater → ocean. An owl needs trees → forest. A grasshopper needs grass → field.