Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Diversity
- A variety of things around us
- Non Living Things
- Once Alive
- Never Alive
- Similarities and
differences allow us to
group the things.
- Living Things - 4
main groups
- 1) Animals
- 2) Plants
- 3) Fungi
- 4) Micro-organisms
- Characteristics
of Living Things:
- 1) Need Air, water and food
- 2) Reproduce
- 3) Grow
- 4) Move
- 5) Respond to Change
- 6) Die
- Plant Groups
Anmerkungen:
- Plants produce their own food.
Plants need us and animals for carbon dioxide.
Plants provide
- 1) Climate
- Group by weather conditions.
Some plants need a lot of rain
and sunlight (Rain Tree), Cold
condition (Conifers), Little rain
(Cactus)
- 2) Flowering Plants & Non Flowering Plants
- Flowering Plants - produce
flower when the are fully
grown. Flowers develop fruits.
- Non Flowering
Plants, cannot
produce flower.
Cannot produce
fruits or seeds
- Eg, Ferns - they produce spores
- 3) Land, Water and Air Plants
- Land plant - Plants grow on land
- Water Plant - Float on
water (lettuce and
duckweed), fully
submerged - cabomba
and seaweed
- Air Plant - have roots in the air. (eg
Orchid or Ferns - epiphytes)
- 4) Useful Plants
- Food crops - Corn, Barley, Wheat, Rice
- Flavorings - herbs or spices
- Alcoholic Drinks - Wheat and Barley used for beers
- 5) Poisonous Plants
- 6) Carnivorous Plants
- Pitcher Plant, Venus
Flytrap - absorb the
nutrients from the prey
it traps
- 7) Grasses
- Rice Plant - produce
food for man.
(Bamboo)
- Animal Group
- Shape
- Size
- Colour
- Habitat
- Body Covering
- Movement
- Diet
- Reeproduction