Year 9 Living World - Home Use

This resource covers the things you need to know and be able to do for the Living World topic of Year 9 Science.  

What do we mean by the 'living world'? Well, it's about living things and how they interact with each other and the environment the world around them.

What you'll learn

In this resource you'll work through five main sections:

1. Living or non-living

In this section, we'll explore what all living things have in common: the eight shared characteristics that make them 'living', and that makes them different from things that are 'non-living'.

2. The life processes of plants

In this section, we'll look at how plants carry out seven different life processes:

• How they move
  
• How they release stored energy so they can use it to do things
• How they can respond to changes in the world around them
• How they grow
• How they reproduce make more of themselves
• How they get rid of wastes
• How they make food and get other things they need to live.

3. Ecology

In this section, we'll explore where living things live as well as what things affect where they live and what helps living things survive where they do.

4. Classification

In this section, we'll look at the systems we use to figure out some order when it comes to all the millions of species of organisms that live on Earth, and what tools we can use to figure out which organism we're looking at.

5. Aotearoa New Zealand's unique plants and animals

In this section, we'll talk about the unique plants and animals we have in Aotearoa New Zealand and how organisms like those come about.

This course will give you a good grounding in the basic knowledge, language and skills you need to take forward to the Living World section of Year 10 Sciences, and then on to Years 11 to 13 when it gets called Biology.

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This resource brings you the same great learning as the printed Learning Guide, but in a digital format.  

For the print format of this resource, click here.

For Equipment Requirement list, click here.

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