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Part 1: Basic needs
Living organism have basic needs to live and grow. Basic requirement for animal to live are:
- Air
- Water
- Food
What kind of foods animals eat?
- plants (example: grasses, trees, fruits, seeds, leaves, etc)
Image courtesy of Kew: Royal Botanic garden
- other animals (examples: chickens, antelopes, birds, etc)
- Carnivore: only eat other animals (for example: tigers, cheetahs, crocodiles, lions, eagles, frogs, toads, snakes, pelicans, owls, monitor lizards, etc)
A video of cheetah hunting and eating steenbok
Cheetah
- Herbivore: only eat plants such as: sheep, cows, horses, deer, antelopes, zebra, buffaloes, beavers, giraffes, goats, gorillas, hippopotamus, etc)
Antelope
Gorrila
Hippopotamus
Horse
Omnivore: eat both other animals and plants such as: pigs, bears, badgers, bears (except pandas and polars), hedgehog, raven, chicken, mice, rats, raccoon, chipmunks, sloths, skunks, cassowaries, opossums, chimpanzees, baboon, squirrels, etc)
Cassowaries
Baboon
Opposum
Hedgehog
Source of Image: animals photoExercises:
1. List 5 other animals that belong to these categories:
- Carnivore
- Omnivore
- Herbivore
- grow in size and weight
- change as they grow
- have different name when they were young/babies and when they are adult.
Look at the picture below to see the size, weight, and other changes to the animals. Also noted their different names if they were babies, males, females and adult.
1. What are these animals are called ?
Readings:
Chicks: a young chickens
Hen: an adult female chickens
Cow: an adult female cow
Calf: A young cow
image from here
Bitch: A female dog
Puppy: a young dog
Ewe: an adult female sheep
Ram: an adult male sheep
1. What are these animals are called ?
- An adult male cow
- A young male horse
- A young/baby cat
- A young pig
- A female donkey
- A young tiger
- A female lion
- A young goose
- A male ducks
- A female swans
Readings:
Learn more about these living things at :
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnivore
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbivore
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore
Quotes of the day:
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the condition in which they can learn
Albert Einstein