Characteristics of Life Worksheet
A worksheet for Grade 3 students to learn about the characteristics of living and non-living things.
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. This worksheet will help you understand the differences between living and non-living things.
Use the words below to complete the sentences.
1. Living things need to food to get energy.
2. Plants and animals can , which means they get bigger.
3. Animals can from one place to another.
4. Living things can to changes around them.
5. To have babies or make more of their own kind is to .
6. Both animals and plants need to to stay alive.
1. Which of these is a characteristic of living things?
They are made of metal.
They need food to live.
They do not change.
They are always cold.
2. Which of these is a non-living thing?
A tree
A bird
A rock
A fish
1. All living things can make their own food.
True
False
2. A car is a living thing because it can move.
True
False
1. Name two things that all living things need to survive.
2. Explain one difference between a living thing and a non-living thing.
Look at the image below. Circle the living things and put an X on the non-living things.
(Note: Students will interact with the image directly on the printed worksheet.)