Animals and Lifecycles - Living Things
Earth has many, many different living things. Some are so small you need a microscope to see them!
Scientists divide living things into types. Some types of living things are:
- Animals
- Plants
- Fungi (for example mushrooms, yeasts, moulds)
- Bacteria and viruses (for example viruses that give us a cold, or bacteria in our stomachs that help us digest food).
All living things are alike in some ways. They all:
- Digest food
- Grow
- Reproduce or have young
- Respond or react to things around them
- Change when their environment, or where they live, changes.
When people study or learn about living things we say they are studying Biology.