Colegio Marista Castilla (PALENCIA)

Science 4 - Educacin Primaria. Teacher: Sara Dios Puebla

UNIT 3 LIVING THINGS

NATURAL SCIENCE

Contenido mnimo para estudiar:

LIFE PROCESSES (procesos vitales):
1. Nutrition (nutricin): Plants make their own food using photosynthesis (las plantas
fabrican su propia comida usando la fotosntesis). Animals feed on other living things (los animales
se alimentan de otros seres vivos). Fungi and bacteria feed on dead plants and animals
(los hongos y las bacetias se alimentan de plantas y animales muertos).

2. Interaction

(interaccin):

Living

things

interact

with

their

environment (interactan con el medio ambiente).

3. Reproduction

(reproduccin):

Animals

can

be

oviparous

or

viviparous (los animales pueden ser ovparos o vivparos). Plants reproduce using
seeds or spores (las plantas se reproducen usando semillas o esporas).
4. Respiration (respiracin): Animals take in oxygen from the air or
water (los animales cogen oxgeno del aire o del agua). Plants breathe using
photosynthesis (las plantas respiran usando la fotosntesis).
5. Excretion (excrecin): Animals excrete harmful substances such as
carbon dioxide, sweat and urine (los animales excretan sustancias nocivas como el dixido de
carbono, el sudor o la orina).

6. Growth and movement (crecimiento y movimiento): animals and plants grow (los
animales y las plantas crecen). Animals move from place to place (los animales se mueven de un
lugar a otro). Plants can move towards light or water (las plantas pueden moverse hacia la luz o el
agua).

HOW ARE LIVING THINGS ORGANISED? (Cmo estn organizados los seres vivos?):

A cell is the smallest living unit (una clula es la unidad de vida ms pequea).

Cells work together to form tissue (las clulas trabajan juntas para formar tejidos).

Tissues work together to form organs (los tejidos trabajan juntos para formar rganos).

Organs that group together form systems (los rganos se agrupan en sistemas).

Systems work together to form an organism or living thing (los sistemas trabajan
juntos para formar un organism o un ser vivo).

LIVING THINGS CAN BE CLASSIFIED (se pueden clasificar) INTO 5 KINGDOMS (en 5 reinos):
THE MONERA

THE PROTIST

THE FUNGUS

THE ANIMAL

THE PLANT

(monera) KINGDOM

(protista) KINGDOM

(hongo) KINGDOM

KINGDOM

KINGDOM

They are

Most (la mayora)

They can be

Multicellular.

Multicellular.

They dont

They produce

unicellular (son

are

unicelulares).

unicellular.

They live
everywhere
(viven en cualquier
parte).

For example:
bacteria.

Most live in
water.

For example:
algae (por ejemplo:
las algas).

unicellular or
multicellular.
They dont produce
food.

produce food.

Feed on other
living things.

They cant move.

They can move.

They eat dead

They have

plants or animals.
For example:

mould (moho).

senses.

Vertebrates or
invertebrates.

their food
using
photosynthesis.

They cant
move.

Flowering or
nonflowering.