Many Living things MOVE from one place to another.

Many living things respond to the ENVIRONMENT.

ALL living things DIE.

ALL living things are MADE OF CELLS.

ALL living things GROW, DEVELOP and are able to REPRODUCE.

ALL Living Things Need:

Animals

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There are millions of kinds of animals. Animals come in all shapes and sizes.

Animals live in many habitats.

“Animals are the EATERS of the earth.”

Animals can be put into two big groups!

Animals with backbones, like you!

About 50,000 kinds of animals with a backbone.

Animals without backbones, like worms!

There are about 9.9 million kinds of animals without backbones.

Sponges have hollowed bodies that have pores.

Sponges have no head and no arms.

There are about 6,000 different kinds of sponges.

Sponges live in fresh and salt water.

Sponges attach to the bottom of a lake or ocean.

Jellyfish, corals and sea anemones are part of this groupof invertebrates.

They are shaped like a tube, bell or umbrella.

Most of them live in the ocean and have stings that arevery painful.

These animals can float or swim and are attached to theocean floor.

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Long, usually thin soft bodies which are flat,round, or segmented.

They may be parasites that feed off of other living animals--like leeches or may be free-living--like earthworms in our soil.

Worms usually have no legs.

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Earthworms, a tube

within a tube

Leeches

Includes snails, clams, scallops, oysters, octopuses,slugs, and squids.

Many of these animals have an outer shell.

For each person on earth, there are 200 millioninsects alive!

There are more insects and insect groupsthan any other living thing on earth!

Metamorphosis

What is this bird eating?

A Mealworm--part of the insect life cycle!

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Pollination

Ant Hill

Ant Hill

Caddis fly house

Dragonfly

Dragonfly Up close!

Images of Insects and their relatives

Insect Sounds

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