Examples of different living things


Plants and animals are examples of living things. Even bread mould, the green or black fungus that grows on old bread, is a living thing. The smallest living things are germs. They are so small that you cannot see them unless you look at them under a microscope. Look at the different sizes of the living things in Figure 2. Germs are even smaller than a mosquito.


New words


bread mould – fungus that grows on bread


germ – very small living thing


Figure 2 Big and small living things elephant


Did you know?


An elephant is about 700 cm long from head to tail. A cattle egret is about 50 cm long and a mosquito is about 5 mm long. A germ is 1 000 times smaller than 1 mm!


Activity 1 Group work


Look at different kinds of living things


Look at the pictures of the different kinds of living things in Figures 1 and 2 and answer the following questions. 1 List the plants. 2 List the animals. 3 State which animal is a fish.


Exam word


list – write the names of things one below the other


cattle egret


mosquito


Unit 1: Living and non-living things: Living things


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