natural

sciences
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Look at these ecosystems.

Which living
things are
plants?

Which living
things are
vertebrate
animals?
Which living
things are
invertebrate
animals?
The animal, plant and fungi
kingdoms
Can plants move around? Can they make
trees

Bushes grasses

their own food?

MOVE AROUND MAKE THEIR
FOOD vertebrates invertebrates

Can animals move around? Can they make

their own food?
MOVE AROUND MAKE THEIR mould mushrooms

FOOD

Can fungi move around? Can they make

their own food? yeast Tree living
fungus

MOVE AROUND MAKE THEIR

FOOD
 Cells
All living things are made up of cells.

The smallest are so small you can only see them with a
microscope.

Different cells have different functions.

Most living things are made up of

many types of different cells but some, like
bacteria, have just one cell.
Animal Kingdom: invertebrates
What do invertebrate animals have instead of a backbone?
Molluscs Jellyfish Sponges

Echinoderms Annelids Arthropods

Animal Kingdom: invertebrates
What do invertebrate animals have instead of a backbone?
Molluscs Soft Jellyfish Soft Sponges Soft
body body body

Little
Hard
Tentacles holes
shell

Echinoderms Annelids Soft Arthropods Head

body
Hard skin

Thorax

spikes segments Exoskelet Abdomen

on

 Animal kingdom: vertebrates
How do animals breathe?

Mammals Birds Fish

Reptiles Amphibia
ns
 Animal kingdom: vertebrates
How do animals breathe?

With With
LUNGS GILLS
Mammals Birds Fish
Both with LUNGS
Reptiles
and GILLS
Amphibia
ns

Animals take oxygen from the air with LUNGS and from the
water with GILLS.
 Animal kingdom: vertebrates
How do animals reproduce?

Mammals are viviparous. The others are oviparous.

Some animals are born directly from their mother:

VIVIPAROUS.
Some others lay eggs: OVIPAROUS.
 Animal kingdom: vertebrates
What do animals eat?

Some animals are

carnivo herbivo
carnivores, some are herbivores omnivo
and others
are omnivores.
res res res

FOOD
CHAINS
Consumer
(herbivore) Consumer
produc
er decompos (carnivore)
er
 Plant kingdom
How do plants reproduce?
Some plants have sexual reproduction: pollen goes from the
stamen to the pistil of the same plant or a different one.

Some plants have asexual reproduction: there are no flowers or

fertilisation.
 Plant Kingdom
How do plants reproduce?
Some plants have sexual reproduction: pollen goes from the
stamen to the pistil of the same plant or a different one.

Insec Self-pol
pollin t W i nd lination
atio on
n pollinati
Some plants have asexual reproduction: there are no flowers or
fertilisation.

Runners Tubers Both sexual and

asexual
 Plant Kingdom
Why is photosynthesis imortant?

OXY
PLA GEN =
NT LI
PLA S = OX FE
Every animal needs oxygen to live. NTS YG
= L I EN
Plants produce oxygen and consume carbon dioxide. FE!
Plants and animals living
together

animals from the same species POPULATION

different populations in one place COMMUNITY
the place they live HABITAT
habitat + community = ECOSYSTEM
How can you look after living things?

We shouldnt climb trees, pick up flowers, remove animals

from their habitats, make fires in the forest or touch wild
animals.
We should feed birds in the winter.