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All Things

Living Not Living


Living things can: Things which are Not Living cannot:
 Have babies  Have babies
 Breathe  Breathe
 Grow  Grow
 Eat  Eat
 Move  Move
 Have feelings  Have feelings
 Go to the toilet  Go to the toilet

Look at the pictures and say if they are living or not living.

Ranclaud
Science - CLASSIFICATION – what is it?
Classicification is:
 putting things that have something the same or similar into one group
 putting things into a different group if they are not the same

These three shapes are the same: These three things are the same:

These three shapes are similar: These three things are similar:

These three shapes are all different: These three things are all different:

Circle the words that are the same: (two words)


a) dog, dog, sheep b) whale, zebra, whale

Circle the words that are similar: (two words)


a) mouse, mice, elephant d) bird, eagle, cow
b) horse, house, deer e) fly, shark, bee
c) chicken, chicks, pig f) bear, beer, cat

Which ones are words that look or sound similar?


Which ones are similar animals?

Circle the word that is different: (one word)


a) snake, lizard, giraffe d) sheep, ship, rabbit
b) possum, koala, zebra e) horse, zebra, fish
c) lion, tiger, goat f) whale, monkey, dolphin

1. A ______________________________________ is an Australian animal.

2. A _____________________________________ is not an Australian animal.

3. A ______________________________________________ lives in the water.

4. A _______________________________________________ lives on the land.

5. A __________________________________________________ has scales.

6. A _______________________________________ has fur.

7. A __________________________________________ has hooves.


EXPLAINING THE STATEMENTS

Complete these sentences using suitable words.

1. Warm-blooded means that the body _____________ of an animal does not


____________ with the outside or air temperature. Both birds and mammals are
warm-blooded. However, cold-blooded means that the ___________temperature of
the animal does change with the __________ temperature. Reptiles, ___________
and ____________ are cold-blooded.

2. Reptiles have ___________ skin and lay ___________ __________ eggs. They do
not live in the __________ when they are young. Frogs, however, have smooth,
_________ skin and lay soft __________ in water. Young frogs, or tadpoles, live in
water when they are young and on ___________ when they are adults. So we cannot
classify frogs as reptiles because they have different characteristics from reptiles.

3. Mammals _________ their young. This means that they __________ them on milk.
This is a characteristic of all mammals not just some of them.

4. Amphibians live in water when they are ___________. They lay __________ eggs,
that is, eggs without a __________. Reptiles live on ___________. They lay

__________ shelled eggs. Thus amphibians and reptiles lay different kinds of eggs.

5. All birds have wings. Most of them use their _________ to flu. However, the ostrich
and the penguin cannot fly. So , most birds can fly but not all of them.

6. Some types of reptiles are _________, lizards and ________. Lizards and turtles
have limbs. Snakes do not have _________. Therefore, most retiles have limbs.

7. Fish are __________ blooded animals. They live in the _________ so they also have
__________ and scales. So all fish have fins, scales and gills.

8. Amphibians are different from most animals because they have a _________ life.
This means that the young ones spend their early lives in the _________. They
cannot live on __________. When they are adults, however they can leave the water,
T his young amphibians must live in water.
CHARACTERISTICS OF VETEBRATES
Vertebrates are animals which have backbones. List the five groups of

vertebrates.

1. _____________ 2. _____________ 3. _____________

4. _____________ 5. _____________

These five groups can be divided into two other groups.

1. ___________________ 2. ___________________

Answer these questions about Vertebrates.

MAMMALS
1. All mammals are _____________ blooded.

2. All mammals have ___________ or ___________ on their bodies.

3. All mammals feed their babies ____________.

4. All ___________ breathe through ___________.

5. All mammals have ____________.

BIRDS
1. All birds are warm ________________.

2. All birds are covered in ______________.

3. All birds have ______________.

4. All birds have ______________.

5. All birds have ______________.

6. All birds lay __________ with hard __________, usually in a nest.


REPTILES
1. All reptiles are _________ ______________.

2. All reptiles have ____________ skin.

3. All reptiles breathe through ____________.

4. All reptiles lay hard shelled __________.

5. Some reptiles have no __________ but some have legs.

6. Reptiles live on _________ but many can

____________.

AMPHIBIANS
1. Most amphibians have _________ moist skin. They do not have claws or

___________.

2. Amphibians lay ________ eggs with no shell, in water.

3. They have a double _________.

4. When they are _________ they breathe through __________.

5. When they are _________, amphibians have __________.

6. When they are young they live in ____________.

7. When they are adults they live on ____________.

FISH
1. All fish live in ___________.

2. They breathe through ___________.

3. All fish have ___________ and _____________.

4. Fish lay soft ___________.

5. Fish can be many different ____________ and ___________.


Put these words into the correct
boxes.

claws beak scales

wings legs fins

tail gills feathers

claws tail scaly skin

Put these words into the correct boxes:


Mammals, Vertebrates, Living, Plants, Fish, All Things, Invertebrates,
Animals, Not Living, Non flowering, Birds, Flowering, Reptiles,
Amphibians.
Animals with backbones
Mammals
Birds
Reptiles
Amphibians
Fish

cold-blood warm-blood
has has has scales (no has has
slimy fins) hair/fur feathers
fins
skin

1. A shark has _______________ and


___________________.
2. A bear has ________________ and
___________________.
3. An eagle has ________________ and
_________________.

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