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Mammals are vertebrates. They breathe through their lungs. They are
viviparous, and nurse their young with milk. Their skin is usually covered
with fur or hair.

1. Circle eight words related to mammals. Use the words to complete

the sentences.

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J L M B W S A O W I N
B V I V I P A R O U S
R K L A N V Z C R H D
E H K M G O N Y F U R
S P B T S F I N S I X
K L J F N U T O S N R
V E R T E B R A T E S
X G V L W D G J A Q P
V S A F L U N G S S R

MAMMALS

Mammals have a spinal column. They are vertebrates .

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They breathe through their .

They skin is covered with hair or .

They give birth to live young. They are .

They nurse their young with .

They move about using their .

Some swim using or fly using .

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Fish, amphibians, reptiles and birds are also vertebrates.

1. Match the characteristics with the vertebrate group/groups.

Skin covered with fur/hair

Lay eggs
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Give birth to live young

REPTILES
Breathe though lungs

Skin covered with feathers BIRDS

Skin covered with scales

MAMMALS

Breathe through gills

Young called tadpoles

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FISH Bare skin AMPHIBIANS

2. Answer the questions.

In which vertebrate group are the young different from the adults?

In which vertebrate group are the limbs fins?

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Invertebrates do not have a spinal column. There are many different
groups. Some of the most important are worms, mollusks
and insects.

1. Make correct sentences. Circle and write.

hard many

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Worms have long, bodies and legs.
soft no

Worms have long, soft bodies...

hard a shell.
Molluscs have bodies and
soft scales.

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2. Color the insect: head - blue, thorax - green, abdomen - red. Label the antenna,
wing, and leg.

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A biome is a large area with a particular range of plants and animals that are
adapted to survive in the climatic and geographic ecosystems within a biome.

1. Match the biomes with their characteristics.

They are the most populated of all biomes.

They have a warm and cold season with
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medium rainfall all year. The soil is fertile.

Deserts

They have heavy rainfall throughout the

Grasslands year and 70% of the plants are trees.

They have a hot dry season and a warm wet

Tundra season. There is more tall grass than trees.

Temperatures are extreme and there is very

Deciduous Forest
little rainfall. They are the driest of all biomes.

Coniferous Forest Winters are long and cold and summers are
short. There is little rainfall. It is difficult for
plants to grow.
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Rainforests
They have a cool climate with medium rainfall.
The plant life is mainly evergreen trees.

2. Answer the questions.

Which biomes receive the most rainfall?

Which biomes receive the least rainfall?

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In order for animals to survive they must gain energy by eating other living
things in the biome. This feeding relationship is known as a food chain.

1. Label and draw to complete the diagram.

primary consumer producer carnivore

secondary consumer herbivore

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eagle

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squirrel

tree acorns

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Reacting is a process carried out by the sense organs, the nervous
system and the musculoskeletal system.

1. Number the sequence. Write the sentences in the correct order.

1
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The eyes receive the The legs move and the

image of the traffic light. girl crosses the street.

The brain decides The optic nerve sends The brain transmits
to cross the street. information to the brain. orders to the legs.
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The eyes receive the image of the traffic light.

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The musculoskeletal system is made up of the skeleton and muscles.
Bones are connected at joints. Muscles move bones.

1. Use the words to complete the word map.

the skeleton muscles the muscular system tendons bones

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The musculoskeletal system

is made up of

The skeleton
is made up of is made up of

joined by

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2. Look and answer the questions.
biceps What muscle contracts
triceps
when we bend our arm? Biceps .
What muscle relaxes
when we bend our arm? .
biceps
What muscle contracts
triceps
when we stretch our arm? .
What muscle relaxes
when we stretch our arm? .
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Nutrition is the process of ingesting food, extracting important nutrients
and expelling waste. Nutrition includes the digestive process, breathing,
circulation and excretion.

1. Which processes are part of nutrition? Decide and write.

Watching TV. The heart beating.
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Eating an apple. Having children.

Breathing. Digesting food.
Eating an apple.

2. Match the column with the pictures.

Group 4. Fruit
Give us energy
and vegetables

Group 3. Rice,
Have nutrients
pasta, bread,
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to help us grow
sugar and cakes

Group 2. Meat, Provide nutrients,

fish and eggs like calcium

Group 5. Oil
Provide vitamins
and butter

Group 1. Milk and

Give us energy
dairy products

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The digestive process enables us to obtain nutrients from the food we eat.
There are two phases: digestion and absorption.

1. Make correct sentences. Circle and write.

mouth
Digestion begins in the mouth , where food is chewed and mixed with saliva.
stomach

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Digestion begins in the mouth.

saliva
In the stomach, food is mixed with gastric juices and forms a thick liquid.
gastric juices
This liquid passes into the small intestine.

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Nutrition absorption
ends in the small intestine and then takes place.
Digestion nutrition

Nutrients anus.
form in the large intestine and are passed out through the
Feces pancreas.

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Nutrition includes the digestive, respiratory, circulatory, and excretory
systems.

1. Label and complete the diagrams.

esophagus stomach liver pancreas intestine anus heart

blood vessel lung trachea bronchi kidney bladder
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esophagus

Digestive system system

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system system
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