🌱 The Living World Learning Hub

Explore Life Sciences for Classes 6-8

📚 Educational Notes

🌿 Living vs Non-Living

  • • Living things grow, reproduce, and respond to environment
  • • They need food, water, air, and shelter
  • • Living things can move and excrete waste
  • • They have a definite lifespan
  • • Examples: Plants, animals, bacteria, fungi
  • • Non-living things don't show life processes

🦋 Classification of Life

  • Kingdom Plantae: Trees, flowers, grass
  • Kingdom Animalia: Mammals, birds, fish
  • Kingdom Fungi: Mushrooms, yeast
  • Kingdom Protista: Amoeba, paramecium
  • Kingdom Monera: Bacteria
  • • Each kingdom has unique characteristics

🔄 Life Processes

  • Nutrition: Getting and using food
  • Respiration: Breathing and energy release
  • Growth: Increase in size and complexity
  • Reproduction: Creating offspring
  • Excretion: Removing waste products
  • Response: Reacting to surroundings

🌍 Habitats & Adaptation

  • Terrestrial: Land habitats (forests, deserts)
  • Aquatic: Water habitats (oceans, rivers)
  • Arboreal: Tree-dwelling organisms
  • • Animals adapt to survive in their habitat
  • • Camouflage, migration, hibernation are adaptations

🔗 Food Chains & Webs

  • Producers: Plants make their own food
  • Primary Consumers: Herbivores eat plants
  • Secondary Consumers: Carnivores eat herbivores
  • Decomposers: Break down dead organisms
  • • Energy flows from producers to consumers