This document summarizes different types of living things. It discusses that all living things go through a life cycle of beginning, growing, reproducing, and dying. There are four main groups of living things: animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms. Animals can move and eat other organisms, plants make their own food, fungi resemble plants but cannot make or move food, and microorganisms are tiny living things that require microscopes to be seen. The document provides examples and characteristics of different types within each group like vertebrates, invertebrates, mushrooms, molds, yeasts, and bacteria.