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Grade 1 Plant & Animal Body Parts for Survival Worksheet with Answers
Grade 1 (US) · Year 2 (UK) · Class 1 (India) · Science
Unit 1: Living ThingsBody Parts for SurvivalNGSS 1-LS1-1
How body parts help plants and animals survive — and how people copy them in inventions. This free early elementary worksheet has 12 questions and a full answer key. Print it or save it as a PDF — every answer is checked by code, not guessed.
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Learning goal: Body Parts for Survival · NGSS 1-LS1-1
Directions: This worksheet has 2 parts. Read the instructions at the start of each part.
What helps a cactus keep animals away?
Answer: spines
RememberStructures that help living things survive
Match each clue to the right word. Write the letter in the box.
- 1How does a porcupine protect itself?
- 2Which human invention copies a bird's wings?
- 3Which human invention copies a turtle's shell?
- 4What do birds use to fly?
- 5What does a turtle use to protect itself?
- 6Which human invention copies a duck's webbed feet?
- ASwim fins
- BAirplane
- CWith sharp quills
- DWings
- EIts shell
- FHelmet
Write your answer on the line.
- 7
Why do eagles have sharp claws?
- 8
Why does a duck have webbed feet?
- 9
Why does a giraffe have a long neck?
- 10
Why do plants grow toward a window?
- 11
What do fish use to breathe underwater?
- 12
What part of a plant takes in water from the soil?
★ Challenge corner for fast finishers
I am a gas that makes up most of the air you breathe. What am I?
How did I do?
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Answer key — Plant & Animal Body Parts for Survival (Grade 1)
- 1.C — with sharp quills
- 2.B — an airplane
- 3.F — a helmet (or armor)
- 4.D — wings
- 5.E — its shell
- 6.A — swim fins (flippers)
- 7.to catch and hold food
- 8.to help it swim
- 9.to reach leaves high in trees
- 10.they grow toward light
- 11.gills
- 12.roots
- ★nitrogen
Answer key (click to show)
- 1.C — with sharp quills
- 2.B — an airplane
- 3.F — a helmet (or armor)
- 4.D — wings
- 5.E — its shell
- 6.A — swim fins (flippers)
- 7.to catch and hold food
- 8.to help it swim
- 9.to reach leaves high in trees
- 10.they grow toward light
- 11.gills
- 12.roots
- ★nitrogen (challenge corner)
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