Responding

SENSITIVE OR RESPOND

All living things react to stimuli.

This means they are sensitive to changes in their surroundings and react to them.

Some animals such as rabbits and ourselves shiver when it is cold.

Most animals are very sensitive to what is happening around them.

Animals that live in the sea are aware of what is happening around them.

Some animals have complicated nervous systems and brains.

They have a sense of:

Plants also respond to stimuli, but in a different way to animals.

Some plants turn towards the sunlight.

Their roots sense and move towards water.