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Living Things - Vocabulary Secure

Living

things

Things that need food,

water, and air to live, growand change. Plants and

animals are living things.

Non-living

things

Things that do not need food,

water and air and are not

growing. Not alive. Air, water,

and rocks are non-living

things.

Animal A living thing that eats otherthings to get energy.

A dog is an animal.

Fish An animal that lives

its whole life inwater and breathes

with gills.

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Amphibian An animal with

smooth, wet skin,

that lives both in

water and on land. Afrog is an amphibian.

Reptile An animal that has

cold blood, scales and

rough, dry skin.Snakes and lizards

are reptiles.

Bird An animal that has a

beak, feathers, two

wings and two legs.

Insect An animal that has

three body parts, six

legs and antenna.

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Mammal An animal that has

hair or fur and feeds

its young with milk.

Egg An oval or round

object, laid by a

female animal. If

fertilized the egg

may contain the

beginning stage of

the animals young.

Young Babies or children ofan animal.

Needs What a living thing

must have to stay

alive. (food, water,

air etc)

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Shelter

A safe place where

an animal will not be

in danger.

Body

covering

What is on the

outside of an animalsbody (skin, hair,

feathers, scales,

shell)

Venndiagram

A diagram with twoor more circles

overlapping, in which

you can list

similarities and

differences between

things.

Observe Use ones senses

(especially sight and

touch) to learn as

much as possible

about something.

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Common There are many. Not

threatened.

Endangered In danger of not

being alive any more.

Sea turtles are

endangered animalsbecause they cannot

easily find all their

needs.

Extinct Kinds of plants or

animals that are no

longer living.

Dinosaurs are extinct

because they are no

longer living.

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Living Things - Vocabulary Developing

Prey An animal that is

hunted by a predator.

The deer is the prey

of a tiger.

Predator An animal that hunts

another animal for

food. The tiger is the

predator of the deer.

Classify To put things into

groups of the same

characteristics.

We classify ducks

and swans together

as they are bothbirds that can swim.

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Vertebrate An animal that has a

backbone in its body.

A rabbit is a

vertebrate.

Invertebrate An animal that has no

bones.A jellyfish is an

invertebrate.

Carnivore An animal that eats

other animals as itsfood. (eg lion)

Herbivore An animal that eats

plants as its food. (egdeer)

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Omnivore An animal that eats

both plants and other

animals as its food.

(eg pig)

Life cycle

All the stages in the

life of a plant or an

animal, from birth to

death. The life cycleof a bird is made up

of embryo in an egg,

chick, young adult,

and adult bird.

Pupa An insect in thestage of its life

between larva and

adult. As a pupa it is

not active and has a

hard covering.

Adult The stage of a living

things life when it is

mature or fully-

grown, and can have

young of its own.

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Diet The food an

animal eats.

The caterpillar

has a diet ofleaves.

Habitat A place where

an animal finds

all the things itneeds to live,

(food, water,

shelter.)

Migrate To move as agroup to live in

another place.

Some ducks

migrate in

winter.

Oviparous An animal that

lays eggs.

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Arachnid Spider (8 legs,

2 body parts)

Mollusk An

invertebratewith a soft

body and often

a hard shell.

A snail is a

mollusk.

CamouflageA way an animallooks that

helps it hide by

blending in to

its

surroundings. A

green insect is

camouflaged to

look like a leaf.

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Threatened Not commonly

found.

On the way to

becomingendangered or

extinct.

Hibernate To spend the

winter in adeep sleep.

Some bears

hibernate in

winter, in a

cave.

DistributionWhere (what

countries) in

the world a

living thing

lives.

Adaptation

Something that

helps an animal

to live. The

ducks webbed

feet are an

adaptation.

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Nocturnal Active at night, resting in

the day. Bats are nocturnal.

Diurnal Active in the day, resting at

night. Sparrows are diurnal.