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Living Things Sorting Worksheet

Various living things including animals, plants, fungi and bacteria

🔍 Part 1: Learning About Living Things

There are four main groups of living things:

🐾 Animals: They can move around and eat other living things for food. They have different numbers of legs (or no legs like fish!).

🌱 Plants: They make their own food using sunlight. They have leaves, stems, and roots. They stay in one place.

🍄 Fungi: These include mushrooms, toadstools, and moulds. They are different from plants because they don't make their own food using sunlight.

🦠 Bacteria: These are tiny living things that are so small you can't see them without a special microscope.

1. Which group can move around to find food?

Animals

Plants

Fungi

Bacteria

2. Which group makes food using sunlight?

Animals

Plants

Fungi

Bacteria

3. Which group is too small to see with just your eyes?

Animals

Plants

Fungi

Bacteria

📋 Part 2: Sorting Activity

Instructions: Look at each living thing below. Write which group it belongs to: Animal, Plant, Fungi, or Bacteria

4. A butterfly with 6 legs that flies from flower to flower

Group: _________________ Why? _________________________________

5. A rose bush with green leaves, thorns, and red flowers

Group: _________________ Why? _________________________________

6. A brown mushroom growing on a dead tree log

Group: _________________ Why? _________________________________

7. A goldfish swimming in a tank

Group: _________________ Why? _________________________________

8. A kauri tree with a thick trunk and green leaves

Group: _________________ Why? _________________________________

9. A spider with 8 legs spinning a web

Group: _________________ Why? _________________________________

🤔 Part 3: Think and Explain

10. Circle all the features that help you identify an animal:

Has legs or fins

Can move around

Has green leaves

Eats other living things

Makes food from sunlight

11. What is one way plants are different from animals?
12. Why do you think bacteria are important even though we can't see them?

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