Here are the key new words from the Unit 2: Animals document with definitions: Beaks - The horny projections on the heads of birds used for eating. Backbone - The flexible column formed by vertebrae that provides structural support in vertebrate animals. Insectivores - Animals that eat insects. Limbs - Arms, legs, or wings of an animal used for movement or grasping. Lay eggs - When female animals produce and deposit eggs for reproduction. Arthropods - Invertebrate animals having an exoskeleton (outer shell) and jointed appendages. Examples are insects, spiders, and crabs. Scales - Small thin plates that form the outer covering

2. Unit o . 4th grade review.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
What are the three things that animals need?
How are animals classified according to the food they
eat?
What do plants need in order to live?
What is an ecosystem?
Write examples of living things and non-living
things in a ecosystem.
Can you explain the difference between ecosystems
and habitats?

3. 1.An animal needs water, food and a place to live.
2.Animals can be : hervibores, carnivores or omnivores.
3.Plants need to live food,water,sunlight and soil.
5.An ecosystem is the place that living things and non
living things live together.
6.Living things: animals and plants, non living things:
water, soil , rocks and light.
7.An habitat is included in an ecosystem.

4. Unit o . 4th grade review.
8. What are the properties of minerals?
9. What are rocks made up of?
10. What are the three possible origins of natural materials?
11. What is the origin of artificial materials?. Write an
example to explain it.
12. What are machines? Name some simple machines.
13. What are complex machines made of?Give 3 examples.

5. Unit o . 4th grade review.
8. Properties are; shape, colour, lustre and hardness.
9. Rocks are made of of minerals.
10. There are three possible origins: vegetable, mineral or
animal
11. Can be man made or manufactured.
12. Machines are objects that make our life easier and
better.Wheel , inclined plane, pulley.
13. Complex machines are made of simple machines. For
instance a bicycle, washing machine.

6. Unit 1(a): Living things.
INDEX

7. Unit 1(a): living things.
1.
New words.
SpeciesExtinctBiodiversity
About
Became
Inhabitated
Estimated
Allows
Cells
Single cell
Surrondings-alrededores
To sense-sentir
To share-compartir
Task-tarea
Tissues-tejidos
Perform-realizar
Within-dentro
Cytoplasm-citoplasma
Membrane-membrana
Wrapper-envoltorio

8. Unit 1(a): living things.
2. Sentences.
-There are 10 million species on
Earth.
-Dinosaurs became extinct.
-Our planet has great biodiversity.
-There are about 10 million
species.
-Dinosaurs inhabited our planet
many years ago.

9. Unit 1(a): living things.
2. Sentences.
-Our intelligence allows us to
understand the world.
-All living things are formed of
cells.
-A single cell organism is formed
of one cell.
-I play around my house
surroundings.

10. Unit 1(a): living things.
2. Sentences.
-I share my things with my friends.
-I do my tasks everyday.
-The stomach is made of different
tissues.
-I perform certain task.
-They will be here within an hour.
-The cytoplasm is inside the cell.
-The membrane is the cell´s wrapper.

11. Unit 1(a): living things.
3.The characteristics of living things

12. Unit 1(a): living things.
3.The characteristics of living things
B) Vital functions of living things.
Nutrition. We take things from our
surrondings which we use our bodies
to obtain energy and grow.
Interaction. We sense changes around
us and react to those changes.
Reproduction. We produce living things
similar to ourselves.

13. Unit 1(a): living things.
3.The characteristics of living things

14. 4.The structure of living things.
-The single cell organisms perform the vital
functions in their one cell.
-In multicellular organisms cells group
together to share different tasks.They
form:
•
-Tissues. Groups of cells which specialize in
•
•
performing certain tasks
-Organs. Parts of the organisms formed of
different tissues which perform a particular
task.
-Systems- groups of organs which perform a
task within a more complex function.

15. 5.The classification of living things.
 There are five kingdoms.
MONERAN KINGDOM
-They have one cell.
-Cells have no membrane around the
nucleus.
-Most reproduce by splitting in two.
-Some monerans cause diseases. But
other are helpful to people like bacteria.

16. 5.The classification of living things.
PROTIST KINGDOM.
-Most have one cell.
-Cells have a membrane around the
nucleus.
-They get nutrients eating other
organisms from water.
-Most reproduce by splitting in two.
Examples- Paramecium, amoeba

17. 5.The classification of living things.
FUNGUS KINGDOM.
-They have many cells.
- They can not move.
-They absorb nutrients from other
organisms.
-Most reprouce by spores.
-Example- mushrooms
, yeast, molds, lichens.

18. 5.The classification of living things.
.PLANTS KINGDOM.
-They have many cells.
-Cells have a membrane around the
nucleus.It contains chlorophyll.
-They use energy from the sun to make
their own food. (Photosynthesis)
-Most reproduce from seeds.
Examples: Trees , grass, flowers and ferns.

19. 5.The classification of living things.
.ANIMAL KINGDOM.
-They have many cells.
-Most can move and they get energy
consuming other organisms.
-They can reproduce with eggs or in the
mother´s womb.
Examples:insects, fish, mammals….

20. LIVING THING OUTLINE
CHARACTERISTICS
FUNCTIONS
Are formed of
CELLS have
Have three vital functions
cytoplasm
membrane
nucleus
They can have
One cell
Nutrition, Interaction
Reproduction
many cells
single-cell
multicellular organisms
structures
TISSUES ORGANS SYSTEMS
CLASSIFICATION
Are classified in five kingdoms
Moneran
Protist
Fungus
Plants
Animals.

21. Unit 1(b): Plants.
INDEX

22. Unit 1(b): Plants.
1. New words.
Moss.-Musgo
Fern-Helecho
Monocotyledon
Dicotyledon
Shade-Sombra
Damp-Humedad
Single-Único
To provide-suministrar
To hold-Sujetar
Decidious-caduco
Evergreen-perenne
Poplars-álamos
Beeches-hayas
Chestnut-nogales
Woody-leñoso
Herbaceous-herbáceo
Bulbs-bulbos
Tubers-tubérculos
Beetroots-nabos.

23. Unit 1(b): Plants.
2. Sentences.
•Mosses and ferns are not
flowering plants.
•Flowering plants are classified
into monocotyledons and
dicotyledons.
•Mosses and ferns need damp and
shade conditions.
•Monocotyledons have a single seed

24. Unit 1(b): Plants.
2. Sentences.
•The leaves use sunlight to provide
energy to the plant.
• The roots help to hold the plant.
•According to their leaves plants can
be decidious or evergreen.
•In the park there are a lot of
poplars, beeches and chestnuts.

25. Unit 1(b): Plants.
2. Sentences.
•The stems can be woody or
herbaceous.
•Onions are bulbs
•Potatoes are tubers.
•Some roots store food like
beetroots.

26. Unit 1(b): Plants.
Plants classification.
•A)Non flowering plants do not
produce flowers.
•They include : mosses and ferns.
•B)Flowering plants produce
flowers.
•They include: Monocotyledon
and Dicotyledon

27. Unit 1(b): Plants .
4.Parts of the plant.
LEAVES
According to their leaves plants can be:
DECIDIOUS. If they lose their leaves in
autumn. Like, poplars and
chestnuts.
EVERGREEN. If their keep their leaves all
year: Pine and cypress.

28. Unit 1(b): Plants .
4.Parts of the plant.
STEMS
There are two types of stem:
Woody, if it´s hard and strong.
Ex. Trees and bushes.
Herbaceous, if it is more flexible.
Ex. Grass

29. Unit 1(b): Plants .
4.Parts of the plant.
ROOTS.
Some roots also can store food like
beetroots and carrots.

30. Unit 1(b): Plants .
5.Activities. Questions about plants.
1- What is a flowering plant? And a non flowering
plant?
2- What kind of plants are mosses and ferns?
3-How can flowering plants can be classified.
4- What are the plants parts? What is the function of
each part?
5-According to the plants leaves how are the plants
classified?
6-What are the two types of stem?

31. Unit 1(b): Plants .

32. What do plants need to grow?
 Air
 Water – not too
much!!
 Light
 Soil

33. What are the parts of a plant?
 Flower
This part makes seeds.
 Stem
This part carries food and water through the
plant.
 Leaf
This part makes food for the plant.
 Root
This part carries water from the soil to the plant.

34. LEAF
LEAVES
The leaves
use
sunlight to
provide
the plant
with
energy.

35. DECIDIUOUS, if they lose their leaves in autumn.
Poplars, Beeches and Chestnuts.
EVERGREEN, if they keep their leaves all year.
Pines and Cypresses.

36. STEM
It conducts the
water and
mineral salts
from the roots
to the leaves.

37. WOODY, if it is hard and strong.
Trees and bushes.
HERBACEOUS, if it is more flexible.
Grass.
Some plants store food in the stem but underground
to survive in winter.
Onions (bulbs) Potatoes (tubers)

38. THE ROOTS
They help to
hold the plant in
the ground to
absorb the
water and
mineral salts.

39. Roots.
Carrots
Beetroots
and

41. Unit 1(b): Plants .
6-Vital functions of the
plants.
 Plants make their own food from
sunlight, water, minerals and carbon dioxide.
This process is called PHOTOSYNTHESIS
Plants are AUTOTROPHS.(Producers)

42. Plants make several simple
movements towards the sun.
The roots, stems and leaves move a little at a very low
speed.
A water lily opens as the day breaks and closes as
darkness falls.
A mimosa folds its leaves if something touches it.
A Venus fly trap closes when an insect comes in
contact with it.

43. Most plants reproduce from seeds.
The reproduction takes place in the flower.
Flowers have male and female organs.

44. Unit 1(b): Plants .
Nutrition
Plants need food. The roots take in minerals from the
soil.
The leaves then turn these mineral salts and water
into food using energy from the sun. This is called
photosynthesis.

45. Unit 1(b): Plants .
Excretion
Plant release oxygen. This is a
waste product of photosynthesis.

46. Unit 1(b): Plants .
Respiration
Plants take in Carbon dioxide
(gas), They use this to make food.

47. Unit 1(b): Plants .
Growth
Plant use the food made during
photosynthesis to grow.

48. Plants OUTLINE
CHARACTERISTICS
FUNCTIONS
Most have three parts
CLASSIFICATION
Have three vital functions
Reproduction
Interaction
Nutrition
Leaves
Stem Roots
Herbaceous or
woody
Decidious
Evergreen
Are classified
stages
1. Absortion
2. Photosynthes
is
3. Breathing
4. Excretion
They can store food
If they
do not
produce
flowers.
If they
produce
flowers
•Mon ocotyledon.
•Dicotyledon
•Mosses
•Ferns

49. Unit 2: Animals.
INDEX

50. Unit 2: Animals
1. New words.
Beaks- picos
backbone- columna vertebral
Insectivores- insectívoros
limbs – miembros
Lay eggs-poner huevos
arthropods- artrópodos
Scales- escamas
molluscs- moluscos
Fins-aletas
echinodermus- equinodermos
Gills- branquias
jellyfish- medusas
Hatch-eclosionar
sponges- esponjas
Tadpoles-renacuajos
fur- pelo
Ringed body- cuerpo
warm blooded- sangre
anillado
caliente
Jointed body-cuerpo
cold blooded- sangre fría
articulado
Womb- útero.

51. Unit 2 - ANIMALS

52. Unit 2: Animals
SENTENCES
•Vertebrates have a backbone.
•Limbs are the same as extremities.
•Invertebrates are divided into:
arthropods, molluscs, echinoderms, jellyfish
and sponges.
•Mammals are warm blooded and have a lot of
fur, like bears.
•Reptiles are cold blooded.
•Mammals are born from their mother´s womb.
•Birds have lungs, feathers, beak and wings.
•Birds are insectivores and lay eggs.

53. Unit 2: Animals
SENTENCES
•Fish have scales , fins and gills.
•Fish hatch from eggs.
•Reptiles have scaly skin like crocodiles.
•Amphibians have slimy wet skin and breath
through gills like a tadpole.
•Worms have a ringed body
•Echinoderms have spinny skinned body.
•Molluscs have a slimy foot.
•Arthropods have a jointed body.
•Arthtropods , molluscs , echinoderms and
worms don´t have bones.

54. CHARACTERISTICS

55. Unit 2: Vertebrates characteristics.
MAMMALS
•They are covered in hair or fur.
•They are warm blooded.
•They have lungs.
•They can be omnivores, hervibores
or carnivores.
•They are born from their mother´s
womb.
•They are land mammals and sea
mammals.
•Humans, horses and elephants

56. Unit 2: Vertebrates characteristics.
BIRDS
•They are covered with feathers. They have beak and
wings.
•They are warm blooded.
•They have lungs.
•They can be omnivores, hervibores or carnivores or
insectivores.
•They lay eggs
•They live on land and sometimes on water.
•Pidgeon, hawk , eagle, stork, sparrow.

57. Unit 2: Vertebrates characteristics.
FISH
•They have scales and fins.
•They are cold blooded.
•They use gills to breathe.
•They eat plants, algae, insects and other
fish.
•They hatch from eggs.
•They live on water.
•Cod, goldfish, trout and salmon.

58. Unit 2: Vertebrates characteristics.
REPTILES
•They have scaly skin.
•They are cold blooded.
•They have lungs.
•They eat plants and other animals like
insects.
•They lay eggs.
•They live on land and in water.
•Snakes, alligators or lizards.

59. Unit 2: Vertebrates characteristics.
AMPHIBIANS
•They have slimy wet skin.
•They are cold blooded.
•Tadpoles breath trough gills.
•They eat plants and other animals like
dragonflies or flies.
•They hatch from eggs.
•They can live in water or land.
•Frogs , newts, toads, salamander.

60. Invertebrates Characteristics.

61. Unit 2: Invertebrates characteristics.
SPONGES
They have a soft body with a lot of
openings.
Like a bath sponge.

62. Unit 2: Invertebrates characteristics.
Jellyfish.
They have a transparent and soft body
with umbrella shape.
Like a medusa or a jellyfish.

63. Unit 2: Invertebrates characteristics.
Worms
They have a soft and ringed body.
Earthworms
tapeworms.

64. Unit 2: Invertebrates characteristics.
Echinoderms.
They have a spiny skinned body or with
limey plates.
Starfish or sea urchins.

65. Unit 2: Invertebrates characteristics.
Molluscs.
They have a slimy foot. They often have a
shell.
Snails,slugs, octopus,squids.

66. Unit 2: Invertebrates characteristics.
Arthropods.
They have a jointed body made of jointed
pieces that move.
Spiders, scorpion and flies

67. Unit 2: Invertebrates characteristics.
Insects.
They have six legs and three body parts
( head, torax and abdomen).
Bee, wasp, fly, butterflies and mosquito.

68. Unit 2: Invertebrates characteristics.
Arachnids.
They have 8 legs and two body parts
(head and abdomen).
Spiders and scorpions.

69. Unit 2: Invertebrates characteristics.
Crustacean.
They have hard outer covering like crust.
Crab and shrimps.

70. Unit 2: Invertebrates characteristics.
Myriapods.
They have a head and segmented trunk.
Scalopendra, centipede and multipede.

71. Unit 2: NUTRITION FUNCTION IN ANIMALS..
Animals are consumers or heterotrophy.
This means they feed on other living
things.
STAGES
1. Taking and
digestion of
food.
2. Breathing.
3. Distribution
of
substances.

72. Unit 2: NUTRITION FUNCTION IN ANIMALS..
STAGES.
1. Taking and digestion of food.
Almost all animals take food with their
bodies through their mouth, which
can have tentacles, tongue, beak….
To perform digestion most animals have a
digestive system.

73. Unit 2: NUTRITION FUNCTION IN ANIMALS..
STAGES.
2. Breathing.
Animals take oxygen from water through
their skin and gills. Some of them
have lungs to breathe.

74. Unit 2: NUTRITION FUNCTION IN ANIMALS..
STAGES.
3.Distribution of substances.
Blood distributes oxygen and nutrients
through the circulatory system.

75. Unit 2: NUTRITION FUNCTION IN ANIMALS..
STAGES.
4.Excretion of residues
Animals excrete through the residues
excretory system.

76. Unit 2: INTERACTION FUNCTION IN ANIMALS..
How the interaction function works.
To perform the interaction function, animals have:
RECEPTORS
Which detect
information
A NERVOUS
SYSTEM
EFFECTORS
Like
Which receives
muscles, which
information,elabor
execute the
ates a response
instructions;anima
and sends
ls react by
instructions
moving,producing
substances,comm
unicating, etc….

77. ANIMALS OUTLINE
CHARACTERISTICS
FUNCTIONS
They have the tree vital functions of
living things.
They are divided into two groups
Reproduction
with a backbone
without a backbone
VERTEBRATES
MAMMALS
FISH
AMPHIBIANS
REPTILES
BIRDS
INVERTEBRATES
ARTHROPODS
MOLLUSCS
ECHINODERMS
SPONGES
JELLYFISH
WORMS
Mammals
are
viviparous ,
the rest
oviparous.
Interaction
Nutrition
Receptors
Taking and
digestion
of food.
Nervous
System
Breathing
Effectors
Distributio
n of
substances
Excretion
of
resiudes.

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