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