How are living things grouped?

Vocabulary
•System
•Method. Process. Technique.
•Large
•Great. Big. Huge.
•Character
•Personality. Nature. Temper.
•Vary
•Differ in size, length, dates, or amounts.
Classification:
• Classification is a system of arranging living things into groups
based on similarities and differences.
• Classification, not only involves grouping living things into
categories but also carries out their naming.
• We can study the features of all members of a group by
studying only the feature of a few members.
• Classification makes the study of living things simpler and
easier.
• It helps in the easy identification of different organisms and
also highlights the relationship between them.
• Classification helps in tracing the possible origin of organisms.
Kingdom Classification:

• A major, large group of similar

organisms.
• There are two major kingdoms –
the Animal and the Plant
kingdoms.
• Animals are heterotrophic, that is,
they cannot prepare their food by
themselves, they feed either on
plants or on other animals.
 Animal Kingdom:

• The classification of the animal kingdom is

carried out based on the characteristics
they exhibit.
• For example, if you pick up a worm, it
feels soft. It has no bones in its body.
Whereas fish or frog feels hard. They have
bones, all joined together with a bone in
their back, to keep their body in shape.
• Therefore, depending on the presence
and absence of the backbone, animals are
broadly classified into two groups –
invertebrates and vertebrates.
 Plant Kingdom:

• Plants exhibit great diversity in characteristics.

• Some of them are microscopic and invisible to
eyes and then there are others as huge as a
banyan tree.
• Due to their large number and varying
characteristics, it is impossible to study them
individually.
• So, to help, all members of the plant kingdom
with similar characteristics are clubbed
together to form groups.
• We call this process – the classification of the
plant kingdom
 Species:
• A species is a group of
living things with common
features that come
together to produce young
ones of the same kind.
• There are approximately
8.7 million species on the
planet Earth.
Living and Non-living Things