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Chapter 9 · NCERT Curiosity

Life Processes
in Animals

Your body is a team of systems working every second — taking in food and air, pumping blood, clearing waste, moving and thinking. Tap each one to see its job.

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Explore the body's systems

Your body runs several life processes at once. Tap each system to see what job it does and which organs carry it out.

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The three big ideas

Every living animal must carry out certain life processes to stay alive:

  • Nutrition (digestion), respiration (using oxygen for energy), transport (circulation), excretion (removing waste), movement, and control (the nervous system).
  • Each is done by a set of organs working together — a system.

Digestion breaks food into simple substances; breathing brings in the oxygen used to release that food's energy inside the cells (respiration).

Worked example. Why must we breathe in oxygen?

Oxygen is used in respiration to release energy from digested food inside our cells. Without oxygen, the cells cannot get the energy they need to work.

Common mistake: "breathing = respiration". Breathing is taking air in and out; respiration is the chemical release of energy inside cells that uses the oxygen.
  • Circulation: the heart pumps blood, carrying oxygen and food to every cell and taking wastes away.
  • Excretion: the kidneys filter wastes (like urea) from the blood as urine.
  • Control: the brain and nerves sense the world and tell the body how to respond.

Where you'll meet it

Your body in action

Why exercise leaves you panting

Sprint, and your muscles demand more oxygen and energy — so your heart races and you breathe faster to deliver them and clear the extra carbon dioxide.

Staying healthy

Eating well, drinking water and clean air keep each system working — good food for digestion, water for the kidneys, fresh air for the lungs.

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Competency quiz

Modelled on the competency-based pattern — MCQ, assertion–reason and a case study, testing whether you can use the ideas, not just recall them.

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Interactive built to the OpenMAIC approach (THU-MAIC, MIT). Content from the NCERT Class 7 Science textbook, Curiosity (ncert.nic.in).

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