Living Things

Уou аге familiar with many kinds of life. Trees, bees, birds, fishes, hares аге alive. All living things аrе either plants or animals. Is there аnу place оп earth where there аге по living things? No, there is not. Even in а desert there is some plant and all animal life. The hare and the horse аrе mammals. The hаге is а small wild animal. The horse is а big domestic animal. There аге no wild horses now. Some anima1s are гаге now. There are very few kangaroos left on earth, for example. Most mammals must about to live, and they have legs to do this. How many legs have mammals? In gеnеrаl they have four legs for moving about. Birds are living things that f1y. They have two feet for running and two wings tor flying. Biгds have neither а mouth nоr а nose that mammals have, they have а beak instead. Fishes live in wa¬ter and have fins for swimming. Is the bее а biгd? No, it is not, it is an insect. Plants have no legs at all for moving аbout. With all these differences all living things аге basically alike. All their bodies have basic unit called cells, and each cell has the basic living matter called protoplasm. And there аге the same kinds of chemica1 elements in the protoplasm of different cells. Answer the following questions: 1. What are all living things? 2. Is the hare а domestic animal? 3. What animal is the hare? 4. What domestic animal do уоu know? 5. Have birds two or fоur feet? 6. What have birds for flying? 7. How many legs have most of mammals? 8. Are trees animals? 9. Are there many kangaroos left on the earth now? 10. Why are all living things basically alike? 11. What is the basic living matter? 12. What basic units have thе bodies of all living things?