The life processes of animals

* ____________ Write these words:

Types of animals according to what they eat
Hervibores
• They eat other animals. — _____________
• They eat plants. — _____________ Carnivores
• They eat plants and other animals. — _____________
Omnivores

Animals need food and oxygen to live.

Other animals take the oxygen in

the water through the G____. Some animals take the oxygen
in the air through the L____.

* ____________ Write these words:

Animals receive information about what is
happening round them through their ________ ________. response
The ________ receives this information.
interprets it and gives an appropriate _________. brain sensitivity
This process is called _________.
sense organs
* ____________
It is the process by which animals ________ offspring
similar to themselves. Most animals have ________
Write these words:
reproduction, which needs a ________ parent and a
________ parent.
male

Types of animals according to how they reproduce: sexual female

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _: eggs
live
The female lays _________ The female gives birth to
that contain young. _________ young. produce

lion • sh • ladybird • snake

Classify these animals: rabbit • eagle • pigeon• deer
OVIPAROUS Viviparous

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Types of animals
Write these words:
VERTEBRATES
They have and internal skeleton with a backbone the body is fur trunk skull
divided into 3 parts:
• _________: Some sense organs are inside the __________. tail
• _________: They have a flexible __________ with many
__________.
backbone limbs
• _________: In some animals. It is an extension of the backbone. head coverings
• _________: They are legs, arms or __________. Fish have fins.
wings vertebrae
• _________: some have a bare skin, others have __________,
feathers or scales.

Write the groups of vertebrates and the animals in the box:

Groups of
VERTEBRATES

Write these words:

bat
whale shark

tuna frog
crocodile snake
INVERTEBRATES
They don’t have and internal skeleton with a backbone. Most are oviparous

Groups of
INVERTEBRATES

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TYPES OF INVERTEBRATES
Write these words:
_____________
They have a soft body. Most of them
SPONGES
have a hard shell for protection. MOLLUSCS
JELLYFISH
_____________ ARTHOPODS
They have a hard outer shell.
Insects are the most abundant WORMS
group.
ECHINODERMS

_____________
_____________
They have a long soft body and no
legs. They float in the sea. They sting
with their tentacles
_____________ _____________
They have a hard spiky skin. They live in the sea, they have
different shapes, they cannot move,
they’re fixed to the seabed.

Classify this animal

- Vertebrate or invertebrate? ______________

- Which group does it belong to? ______________

- Characteristics= ________________________________
___________________________________________

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 Write these words:
_____________ MAMMALS REPTILES
• They have a skin covered with fur.
Most of them have four legs
FISH AMPHIBIANS BIRDS
•
• Most of them have two ears
• They have a mouth with lips and teeth.
• ____________________________
• ____________________________ _____________
• Their bodies are covered with feathers.
• They breathe oxygen through lungs.
• In many species males and females look
different.
_____________ • ____________________________
• ____________________________
• Most of them have four legs. • ____________________________
• Most of them have a long tail.
• They breathe through lungs.
• ____________________________
• ____________________________ _____________

• Their bodies are covered with scales.

• They live in the water.
_____________ • ____________________________
• ____________________________
• ____________________________
• They are covered with bare skin.
• ____________________________
• Some have a long tongue to catch insects.
• Adults breathe though lungs.
• ____________________________
The babies are called FRY.
• ____________________________
• ____________________________
They breathe oxygen through gills.

Babies drink their mother’s milk.

They are born from eggs.
They give birth to live young. They are born from eggs.

Their skin is covered with scales. They have a hard beak.

Most of them can fly. They are born from eggs

They suffer a process called metamorphosis.

They are oviparous.

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The babies are called tadpoles.
They breather though gills. They have fins to swim.
 Carnivores
Copy and complete Herbivores
Invertebrates
Omnivores
Types of Oviparous
Vertebrates
animals Viviparous

Nutrition Reproduction Skeleton

Complete
Mammals Birds Reptiles Amphibians Fish

Respiration LUNGS

Covering FUR

Body parts FINS

Reproduction EGGS