Diversity

What is Diversity?
Diversity is the variation of living and non-living things around us.

What is Classification?
Clasification is the grouping of things according to the similarities and differences.

What is Characteristic?
Characteristic is the property of things e.g. they can run, feathers as outer covering.

Why is classifying things important?
Classifying things allows us to have an orderly and organised view of the things around us.

What are Living things?

• Living things are things that are alive.
• It can be grouped into 4 main groups - Animal, Plants, Fungi, Micro-organisms
• Their characteristics:
• they need air, water and food
• they have young / reproduce
• they grow
• the move by themselves
• they respond to changes
• they die

How do we classify living things?
We can classify them by their similarities and differences.  They can be grouped by

• their habitat (the place the live - e.g. land, water, underground, on the tree eg)
• the things they eat (herbivores, carnivores, omivores)
• their outer coverings (feathers, fur/hair, scales, shells..)
• the way they move (walk, swim, crawl, fly, glide...)
• the way they reproduce (laying eggs, give birth to young alive)
• their shape, colour, size (e.g. plant shape has round, palm shape etc..)