LIVING THINGS
LIVING THINGS AND NON-LIVING THINGS
• LIVING THINGS eat food, grow, reproduce and breathe air.
• NON-LIVING THINGS don´t eat food, grow, reproduce or breathe air.
LIVING AND NON-LIVING THINGS
AQUATIC AND LAND ORGANISMS • AQUATIC ORGANISMS live in oceans, seas,
rivers, lakes and ponds.
• LAND ORGANISMS live on dry land.
VITAL FUNCTIONS
• All living organisms have got three things in common:
– Nutrition: all living organisms need food, water and air to live and grow.
– Interaction: all living organisms feel what happens and react.
– Reproduction: all living organisms produce offspring.
ANIMALS • They don´t make their own food. They feed on other living
organisms.
• They breathe oxygen.
• They have got sense organs
that let them see, hear, smell,
taste and touch.
• They move from one place
to another using their locomotor
system.
Types of animals • According to what they eat:
– Herbivores only feed
on plants
– Carnivores only feed on
meat. Some are scavengers,
which feed on dead animals.
– Omnivores eat meat and
plants
Types of animals
• According to how they reproduce: – Oviparous animals lay
eggs
– Viviparous animals
develop inside their
mother´s belly.
Types of animals • According to their locomotor system:
– Vertebrates have got an internal skeleton and a backbone
– Invertebrates haven´t got internal skeleton or a backbone
Vertebrates
• They have got
– An internal skeleton and a spine
– A head with sense organs and a skull to protect the brain
– A trunk with, normally, four limbs and sometimes a tail
Invertebrates • They don´t have internal skeleton or spine.
• Many have got shells to protect their bodies
• They are oviparous
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