LIVING THINGS AND NON-
LIVING THINGS

THINGS AROUND US
• There are many
things around us.
There are two groups
of things:

Do you know the
differences between
living and non-living
things?

CHARACTERISTICS OF LIVING THINGS
Living things are things that are
alive.

Living things need water and food.

Living things can breathe.

Living things can grow.

Living things can move.

Living things can reproduce.

An elephant is living thing.

A plant is living thing.

A person is living thing.

NON-LIVING THINGS
• Non-living things are things that
are not alive.
• Non-living things don't need water
and food.

Water and sun are non-living things.

A telephone is non-living thing.

VERTEBRATES AND
INVERTEBRATES

Animals are divided into two groups:
VERTEBRATES AND INVERTEBRATES.

• Vertebrates have a backbone and a
skeleton.

There are five classes of vertebrates:
- MAMMALS
- BIRDS
- FISH
- AMPHIBIANS
- REPTILES

INVERTEBRATES don’t have a skeleton.

Arthropods and molluscs are invertebrates.
A butterfly is an arthropod. A snail is a mollusc.

MAMMALS

Mammals have hair.

Most mammals have four legs.

Mammals have live babies. Baby mammals
drink their mother's milk.

Mammals breathe with their lungs.

Mammals have a skeleton inside. They are
vertebrates.

Most mammals live on land.

Some mammals live in the sea.

BIRDS

Birds have two legs, two wings and a beak.

Birds have feathers. Most birds can fly.

Birds are vertebrates. Birds lay eggs.

REPTILES

Reptiles are vertebrate animals.

Reptiles have scales and some reptiles
have a shell.

Reptiles lay eggs.

Reptiles breathe with their lungs.

Some reptiles don't have legs and some
have four legs.

Reptiles are cold-blooded.
COLD BLOOD

AMPHIBIANS

Amphibians live in water and on land.

Amphibians lay eggs in the water.

Amphibians are vertebrates.

FISH

Fish are vertebrates.

Fish lay eggs in the water.

Fish live in the water.

Fish have scales and fins.
SCALES
FINS

Fish breathe with their gills.
GILLS

Eels, sharks and sardines are fish.

INSECTS

Insects are invertebrates. They do
not have a skeleton.

Insects have three body parts: head, thorax
and abdomen.

Insects have six legs, and two antennae.

Some insects have wings.

Insects lay eggs.

A butterfly, a cockroach, a mosquito and a
ladybird are insects.

Other invertebrates...
These invertebrate animals are not insects.
They do not have six legs.
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