Diversity 2

• Living things need air to survive unlike non-living things
• Differences between living and non-living things

  • Living things grow, non-living things do not grow
  • Living things change in height, size, appearance
  • Living things respond to changes around them
  • Living things reproduce
• Groups of living things

  • Plants
  • Animals
  • Fungi
  • Bacteria
• Plants

  • Plants need air, food and water to stay alive
  • Plants make their own food
• Flowering plants


  Plants which produce flowers
• Flowering plants produce flowers when adult plant
• Some plants produce flowers only during certain times of the year
• Flowering plants produce fruits
• Non-flowering plants


  • Do not produce flowers
• Parts of a flowering plant

  • Fruit
  • Flower
  • Leaf
  • Stem
  • Roots
• Animals depend on plants for food
• Amphibians


  • Live on land and in water
  • Breathe through moist skin underwater
  • Breathe through lungs on land
  • Most reproduce by laying eggs
• Birds


  • Only animals with feathers
  • Feathers help them to fly and keep them warm
  • Have a pair of wings and a pair of legs and a beak
  • Reproduce by laying eggs
• Fish


  • Live in water
  • Bodies covered with scales
  • Breathe through gills
  • Have fins to help them swim
  • Most reproduce by laying eggs
• Insects

  • Have three pairs of legs
  • Have a pair of feelers
  • Have three body parts (head, thorax, abdomen)
  • Have a hard outer covering to protect its soft body and give It’s shape
  • Reproduce by laying eggs
• Spiders and scorpions are not insects
• Mammals


  • Bodies covered with hair/fur
  • Breathe through lungs
  • Give birth to young alive(except platypus and spiny anteater)
  • Produce milk for their young to feed on
  • Only animals which suckle their young
• Mammals


  • Orangutan
  • Elephant
  • Giraffe
  • Dolphins
  • Seals
  • Bats
• Reptiles


  • Have dry skin usually covered with scales
  • Some have shells
  • Reproduce by laying eggs
• Reptiles


  • Turtle
  • Crocodile
  • Snake
• Plants respond to light by growing towards it.
• orang-utans,giraffes and elephants are mammals which live on land.
• bats are mammals which can fly
• Seals and dolphins are mammals which live in water
• Examples of amphibians are salamanders and frogs.
• Penguin is a type of bird
• living things reproduce so that their own kind will continue to exist
• Fungi


  Very small living things that belong to a group called fungi
• Fungi and Bacteria

  • Need a microscope to see
  • Are living things which can only be seen using a microscope
  • Are called microorganisms
• Fungi


  • Mould
  • Yeast
  • Mushroom
• Mould(conditions)

  Needs moisture and warmth to grow
• Fungi

  Can be useful and harmful to us
• How do fungi obtain food?

  Feed on other living things which may be dead or alive
• Fungi

  Cannot make their own food
• Where are fungi found?

  Grow in places which are very damp and shady (toilets, corners of buildings)
• How do fungi reproduce?

  1. Produce spores

  2. Spores are tiny and light
• Bacteria


  • Very small
  • Commonly seen under a microscope
  • Found everywhere
  • Come in different shapes and sizes
  • Can be useful or harmful to us
  • Most cannot make their own food
  • Feed on living or dead things
• Plastic

  • Light
  • Strong
  • Stiff
  • Mostly floats on water
  • Not transparent
  • Waterproof
• Glass

  • Made from sand
  • Stiff
  • Transparent
  • Strong
  • Waterproof
  • Can be flexible
  • Can be translucent, opaque or transparent
• Fabric

  • Comes from plants (cotton)
  • Comes from animals (silkworm, wool)
  • Comes from man-made (nylon, polyester)opaque,can be flexible