Living Creatures

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Living creatures

All living creatures have to do the following things:

• Feed• Reproduce • Grow• Move• Sense

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Feed

All animals need to find and eat food to get energy.

This energy helps them to move and grow.

Reproduce

All animals have babies. This is called reproducing.

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Grow

All animals start life as a baby and grow until they become an adult.

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Sense

All animals have to be able to use their senses to find out information about the world.

They can do this by seeing, hearing, tasting, touching or smelling things.

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MoveAll creatures have to be able to move. They move to find food, escape things trying to eat them and to find a mate.

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AnswersReproduce – Producing babiesSense – Reacting to the things around youGrow – Getting biggerFeed – Eating foodMove – Moving parts of the body

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What do you like to eat?

All animals have a particular type of food which they like to eat.

Most animals have bodies which are developed especially to help them catch what they like to eat.

Can you work out what these animals like to eat?

What’s for dinner?

CrocodilesSea cucumbersPelicans

I have long whiskers which I use to find animals living on the ground at the bottom of the sea.

What’s for dinner?

Seal

Photo credit Rudy Tiben Photo credit Allie Hylton

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Photo credit Allie Hylton

These strange animals live at the bottom of the sea.

Yes, I eat sea cucumbers!

Photo credit Rudy Tiben

Penguins

I have big strong jaws. I can swim really quickly which helps me to catch my dinner.

Fish Gazelles

What’s for dinner?

Blacktip Reef Shark

Photo credit John Beckett

Black tip Reef Shark

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Photo credit John Beckett

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That’s right, I eat fish!

Some species of fish can swim really quickly. In order to catch them, their predators have to be even quicker!

Plankton TunaOtters

I have long poisonous tentacles which I use to catch my dinner.

What’s for dinner?

Jellyfish

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That’s right, I eat plankton!

Plankton are the smallest creatures in the ocean. They live in water all across the world.

Salmon MusselsSea snakes

I have powerful jaws which I use for crushing the shells of my food.

What’s for dinner?

Cownose Ray

Photo credit Gavin Mills

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That’s right, I eat mussels!

Mussels have a strong shell which they use to protect themselves, although this doesn’t put off some creatures!

Photo credit Gavin Mills

Dolphins Starfish Jellyfish

I live in warm waters. I swim quite slowly and use my sharp beak to catch my dinner.

What’s for dinner?

Sea turtle

Photo credit Sias van Schalkwyk Photo credit Paul Caputo

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Photo credit Sias van Schalkwyk

Jellyfish live in all of the world’s oceans. They move through the water very slowly.

Yes, I eat jellyfish!

Photo credit Paul Caputo