This document discusses the basic needs of living things including plants, animals, and humans. It explains that all living things need food, water, air/oxygen, shelter/space, and for plants, sunlight in order to survive. The document provides examples of the specific needs of animals, which are food, water, shelter, space, and air, and of plants, which are water, air, sunlight, and space. It prompts the reader to consider their own basic needs as a living thing and complete an assignment identifying the five basic needs of animals through drawings and labels.