INDIAN SCHOOL MUSCAT
MIDDLE SECTION
CLASS 5 - SCIENCE
PLANTS AND ANIMALS
Lesson 1
MODULE 1
❖ Identify the main difference between these two
pictures?
Non –living thing Living thing
PLANTS
LIVING THINGS
ANIMALS
❖ SIMILARITIES BETWEEN PLANTS AND
ANIMALS
1. They need air, food and water to survive.
2. They grow in size.
3. They move
4. They feel or respond to stimuli
5. They reproduce
6. They breathe
1. LIVING THINGS NEED FOOD
CLASSIFICATION OF
ORGANISMS
Producers Consumers
PRODUCERS CONSUMERS
are are
organisms organisms
that make that depend
their own on other
food. organisms
for their
food.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g6dzaK5Ri0
ANIMALS ARE CLASSIFED BASED ON THE FEEDING HABITS AS:
HERBIVORES: Animals that eat plants are called herbivores.
CARNIVORES: Animals that eat the flesh of other animals are called
carnivores.
OMNIVORES: Animals that eat both plants and the flesh of other
animals are called omnivores.
PHOTOSYNTHESIS IN PLANTS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJxRURFkfOw
PHOTOSYNTHESIS:
The process by which plants prepare their own food
with the help of chlorophyll, water, carbon dioxide and
sunlight is known as photosynthesis.
In this process -The food prepared is in the form of
starch.
In this process- the green plants give out oxygen.
RECAP
❖ Similarities between plants and animals
❖ Producers, consumer
❖ Living things need food
❖ Herbivores, carnivores, omnivores
❖ Photosynthesis
ASSIGNMENT
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:
1. What would happen if plants did not contain
chlorophyll?
2. Why are animals called as consumers ?
3. How do plants make their food?