Living things have key functions like nutrition, excretion, respiration, reproduction, growth, movement, and interaction with their environment. They take in food, breathe, produce waste, grow over time, can move, and respond to changes. Non-living things do not have these functions and properties - they cannot move, breathe, reproduce, grow, produce waste, consume food, or interact with their environment.

1. Vital functions and differences
between living things and non-living
things.
5th LIVING THINGS

2. • Nutrition : living things take nutrients to change them
into energy. They need food.
• Excretion: living things produce waste.
• Respiration: living things breathe. They exchange gases.
• Reproduction: living things create new living things.
• Growth: living things grow up.
• Movemment: living things can move.
• Interaction: living things interact with the world. They
respond to changes.

3. • It can move and breathe. It can reproduce. It
can grow up. It produces waste. It eats. It can
interact with the world.
• It cannot move and breathe. It cannot
reproduce. It cannot grow up. It doesn’t
produce waste. It doesn’t eat. It cannot
interact with the world.