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Living Things

Sorting animals, how plants feed, food chains, clever adaptations and your body

Living Things is a Bertopia flashcard pack of 75 cards: sorting animals, how plants feed, food chains, clever adaptations and your body. It covers sorting living things; plants; food chains; animal adaptations; human body.

Sample cards

Amphibians, insects, reptiles, fish: name the group that is never counted among the five big groups of vertebrates.
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Insects
The five vertebrate groups are fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. Insects have no backbone, so they are invertebrates.
What is a main job of roots?
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Taking in water and minerals from the soil
Plants take in water and mineral nutrients through their roots.
How does a giant panda grip bamboo without a true thumb?
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An extra long wrist bone with a fleshy pad
A panda has an enlarged wrist bone covered in a pad that works like a thumb for holding bamboo stems.
How many bones are in an adult human skeleton?
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206
The adult skeleton has 206 bones: 80 in the central axis and 126 in the limbs and girdles.
In a food chain, what makes a producer special?
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It makes its own food
Producers such as plants, algae and phytoplankton make their own food, mostly using sunlight. Everything else in the chain depends on them.
Parrot, frog, snail, shark: name the invertebrate.
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Snail
Snails, slugs, worms, spiders and insects have no backbone. Frogs, sharks and parrots all do.

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