Kindergarten · Science · Unit 3 of 10
What Living Things Need
Food, water, air and sunlight
What your child practises
Telling living from non-living things, and what plants and animals need to live: food, water, air, shelter and sunlight.
Ontario Curriculum expectation: B13.2 · sorting and classifying living and non-living things
Sample questions
A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.
Question 1
What do animals need to live?
🐇- 🧸toys
- 📺a TV
- 🍎food and water
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🍎 food and water
Hint: All animals need food, water and air to live.
Question 2
Living or not living? Tap a picture, then its basket.
Sort into: 🌱 living · 🪨 not living
- 🚗toy car
- 🌳tree
- ⚽ball
- 👟shoe
- 🐟fish
- 🐞ladybug
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🌱 living: tree, fish, ladybug · 🪨 not living: toy car, ball, shoe
Hint: Living things grow and need water and air. Toys and spoons don't!
Question 3
What do roots take in for the plant?
🌱- 🧸toys
- ☀️sunlight
- 💧water
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💧 water
Hint: Roots grow in the soil and drink up water for the plant.
Question 4
What do we breathe in to stay alive?
- 🌬️air
- 🏖️sand
- 🧃juice
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🌬️ air
Hint: Take a big breath. You are breathing in air!
Question 5
Animals need shelter. What is shelter?
- 🍎a kind of food
- 🧸a toy
- 🏠a safe place to rest
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🏠 a safe place to rest
Hint: Shelter keeps animals safe, dry and warm, like a den or a nest.
Question 6
A dog is thirsty. What does it need?
🐕- 🛏️a bed
- 💧water
- ⚽a ball
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💧 water
Hint: When we are thirsty, we need a drink of water. Dogs do too!