Standard Science Primary 3 Diversity

Siti placed a marble and a caterpillar into separate containers. After a week, she noticed the caterpillar had grown longer, but the marble remained the same size. What does this show?

A Non-living things can respond to changes.
B Living things can reproduce.
C Living things can grow.
D Living things need air to survive.
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Step 1: Identify the observation (caterpillar increased in length; marble did not). Step 2: Relate the increase in length to the characteristic of growth. Step 3: Conclude that living things grow while non-living things do not.

Correct answer: Living things can grow.

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