The answers already given are correct. However, there's a bit more to the explanation than the ones given even for a 6 year old. Here are some web links to help you out.
http://www.valdosta.edu/~klmaywea/topic.html
The above link is a Web Quest which is a type of activity page you can do with your child.
This site should give you enough info to help your child.
The rest of the links give a bit of detail as to specifics that are taught in some curriculums.
http://www.fairview.k12.il.us/Curric/SCIENCE.K-8.htm
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5. Understand the difference and similarities between living and non-living things.
A. Know that living things breathe, eat, move, and grow.
B. Know non-living things do not breathe, eat, move, or grow.
C. Be able to tell living and non-living things apart.
http://www.huntel.net/rsweetland/science/teacherTools/curiculmOutlns/Parts/lifesci.html
First 1.4.1 By the end of first grade, students will develop an understanding of the characteristics of living things.
* Differentiate between living and nonliving things.
* Investigate how living things need food, water, and air to survive.
* Describe how roots, stems, and leaves serve different functions for plants.
* Compare and contrast animals by specific characteristics (e.g., body covering, diet, and locomotion).
* Observe and match organisms to their distinct habitats.
- reproduction, life cycles, heredity, regulation, behavior
* Describe how offspring resemble their parents (humans: babies and adults have eyes, ears, nose, arms, legs, hair. Cats and kittens (...) Dogs and puppies ( )).
* Describe how living organisms change as they grow.
Good Luck & have fun :)!
2007-04-15 07:55:42
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answered by ursaitaliano70 7
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dwelling issues are only matter it is composed in a extra complicated way, and follows a perpetual rhythm (dwelling.) in case you build a fort out of legos, it would not replace the certainty that it is in essence, nonetheless a pile of plastic block. it is composition is comparable to in case you opened a sparkling container of legos and dumped them on the floor; it is only arranged in yet otherwise.
2016-10-22 05:29:07
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answered by ? 4
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