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Life Processes MRSCGREN

📚 Part 1: Learn the Life Processes

WALT: We Are Learning To identify and describe the eight life processes.

Success criteria: I can expand MRSCGREN, give examples, and explain why each process is important.

MRSCGREN: Movement, Respiration, Sensitivity, Control, Growth, Reproduction, Excretion and Nutrition.

1. Which life process is shown when a person pulls their hand away from a hot surface?

Growth

Sensitivity

Nutrition

2. Respiration releases energy from _________.

Water

Glucose

Oxygen only

3. Which process removes waste products from an organism?

Excretion

Reproduction

Movement

4. Select all the processes that occur in plants.

Nutrition

Growth

Reproduction

Excretion

5. In one sentence, explain what control means in a living organism.

✏️ Part 2: Apply Your Knowledge

Reading support: Read each question aloud, underline key words, and use the MRSCGREN list above as a prompt.

6. Match each example to the correct life process.
A. A seedling becomes taller
B. A rabbit eats grass
C. A person breathes faster during a run
D. A cat has kittens
Growth
Nutrition
Respiration
Reproduction
7. Explain the difference between respiration and breathing.
8. Why must organisms carry out nutrition?
9. A plant bends towards a window. Which two life processes are involved? Explain your answer.

🌟 Part 3: Challenge and Support

Support: Complete questions 1–5 using the word bank: movement, respiration, sensitivity, control, growth, reproduction, excretion, nutrition.

Extension: Choose one organism and create a table showing how it carries out all eight MRSCGREN processes. Include a specific example for each process.

10. Extension: How would you prove that your chosen organism is living?

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