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| Charactistics of living things |
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They move
They eat
They grow
They take in and get rid of gases
They react to things around them
They reproduce (produce others like themselves) |
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| Animals with special teeth for gnawing their food. |
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| Woodlands, grasslands, hills, marshes, rivers, lakes. |
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| 3 ways to sort animals into sets |
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1. Where they live (land/water)
2. What they can do (fly/not fly)
3. What they are like (feathers/fins/fur) |
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| Scientists who study living things. |
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| Classification of animals: 2 big groups |
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| Animals with backbones (vertebrates) and animals without backbones (invertebrates) |
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| Classification of Animals - subsets of Vertebrates |
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| mammals (milk glands & fur or hair), birds (feathers), fish (wet scales & fins), reptiles (dry scales, no fins), and amphibians (smooth damp skin) |
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| 5 Kingdoms of living things |
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| Monera, Portista, Fungi, Plants, Animals |
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| Single cells or colonies of identical cells. Cells don't have a true nucleus, and their DNA lies free in the cytopalasm. Rigid cell walls made of material not found in any other kingdom. Examples: Bacteria and blue-green algae. |
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| Single-celled organisms living individually or in colonies. Cells have a true nuclei. Live in water or moist places. Examples: simple forms of algae and portozoa. Called "the first animals" because they feed by digesting complex food materials just like us. |
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| Nucleus is complete like cells, but unlike plants fungi don't have cross walls that divide into small units called cells. Examples: yeast, mushrooms, pin-mold. |
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| Most plants have more than 1 cell. Each cell is surrounded by a thick cell wall. Cells usually contain chlorophyll. Green plants can make their own food using the process called photosynthesis. |
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| Animals are made up of many cells. Cells are organized in layers called tissues which make up the organs of the body. Each cell is surrounded by a flexible cell membrane. They have no cell wall and no chlorophyll. Animals usually mvoe to get ehir food, which is swallowd and digested inside its body. |
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