Question

Which of the non-living things listed below, were once part of living things?

Butter, leather, soil, wool, electric bulb, cooking oil, salt, apple, rubber.

Answer 1

1. Living things are those which are alive and can grow, reproduce, respire, move, and excrete.
2. Non-living things are those which can grow, reproduce, respire, move, and excrete.

Living things: Leather, apple.

1. Leather: Leather is an animal skin that is extracted to use different things such as shoes, clothes, etc.
2. Apple: Apple is a fruit that grows on plants. After full growth, it gets detached from the main plant and becomes non-living.
3. Butter: It is a solid substance that is extracted from animals' milk, where animals are living things.
4. Cooking oil: Cooking oil is extracted from plants (living things).
5. Rubber: Rubber is a non-living thing extracted from a rubber plant.
6. Wool: Wool is a non-living thing extracted from sheep (living thing).

Non-living things: Soil, electric bulb, salt.

1. Soil: Soil thing is a non-living thing made from the breakdown of large stones (non-living things).
2. Electric bulb:: Electric bulb is a non-living thing made from glass and metals.
3. Salt: Salt is extracted from the sea (non-living thing).