Identify and Classify Animals and Plants

Are you ready to learn all about the animal kingdom?

Within the animal kingdom there are different groups, almost like families and most animals will fit into one of these 'families'.

Each group has different features and different types of animal in them.

Read below to find out about each one!

They are:

Birds	Are warm-blooded and can live on land and water. They have feathers, wings and a beak and they lay eggs!
Mammals	Are warm-blooded and can live on land and water. They have hair or fur and give birth to live babies, feeding them with milk.
Amphibians	Are cold-blooded and can live on land and water, but like to be near water. They have moist skin and webbed feet and lay eggs too!
Reptiles	Are cold-blooded and live on land or in water. They have scales, ear holes and dry skin and lay eggs.
Fish	Are cold-blooded and live in water only. They have gills to breathe underwater and fins to move and swim and lay their eggs in water.
Insects	Are cold-blooded but don't have blood like other animals because it doesn't carry oxygen! They can live on land and in water and their bodies have three main parts and many have two sets of wings. They lay and hatch from eggs.

Some of the features that make them different to other animals are highlighted. Have another look through and see what differences you can spot!

Plants are just as important as animals and while they have their own families, we won't be looking as closely at that today, but we will still be looking at plants!

A few things to remember:

Plants get their energy from the Sun and make their own food. They are producers.

Some plants can live in very dry places, such as cacti in the desert, or very wet warm places, such as banana trees in the jungle.

And they offer homes and food to animals.

There are lots of different types, like:

Trees
Flowers
Cacti
Grasses
Seaweed and sea plants

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In this activity, we will be spotting different plants and sorting animals into their correct group - let's go!