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Monday 2 January 2017

Chart 152 - Living & Non Living

Living & Non Livings Chart
Living & Non Livings Chart

Spectrum Chart 152 - Living & Non Living

  1. Human Being (Living) - Human beings are the most social animal of all living creatures. There are estimated to be more than 7 billions human beings on the planet.
  2. Animals (Living) – Animals are living thing that can move independently and that has senses for recognising and reacting to the environment around it. Animals are divided into two groups, vertebrates and invertebrates.
  3. Birds (Living) – Birds are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a lightweight but strong skeleton. Birds live worldwide and range in size from the 5 cm bee hummingbird to the 2.75 m ostrich.
  4. Aquatic Animals (Living) - Aquatic animal is an animal, either vertebrate or invertebrate, which lives in water for most or all of its life. It may breathe air or extract its oxygen from that dissolved in water through specialised organs called gills or directly through its skin.
  5. Plants (Living) – Plants are one of five big groups of living things. They have complex cells and make their own food. Usually they cannot move. Plants include familiar types such as trees, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses and green algae. There are about 350,000 extant (living) species of plants.
  6. Insects (Living) – Insects are are small terrestrial invertebrates which have a hard exoskeleton. Insects are the largest group of animals on earth by far, about 926,400 different species have been described. Insects have six legs and most have wings. Insects were the first animals capable of flight.
  7. Tools (Non Living) – A tool is any physical item that can be used to achieve a goal, especially if the item is not consumed in the process. Tools are things used to make tasks easier. Tools have changed over time. The first tools were made in the Stone Age and Bronze Age. Throughout history, people have made many new and more complicated tools.
  8. Appliances (Non Living) – Appliances are a machine used for routine housekeeping tasks such as cooking, washing laundry, food preservation etc. Appliances often have a home version and a commercial version. Commercial version is designed to be used continuously & have higher capacity.
  9. Vehicles (Non Living) – A vehicle is a mobile machine that transports people or cargo. Typical vehicles include wagons, bicycles, motor vehicles (motorcycles, cars, trucks, buses), railed vehicles (trains, trams), watercraft(ships, boats), aircraft and spacecraft.
  10. Books (Non Living) – A book is a set of written, printed, illustrated or blank sheets, made of ink, paper, parchment or other materials, fastened together to hinge at one side. A single sheet within a book is a leaf and each side of a leaf is a page.
  11. Computer (Non Living) – A computer is a general purpose device that can be programmed to carry out a set of arithmetic or logical operations automatically. There are four main processing steps in a computer and they are: inputting, outputting, storage and processing. These four steps help the computer to work.
  12. Building (Non Living) – A building is a structure with a roof and walls standing more or less permanently in one place, such as a house or factory. Buildings come in a variety of sizes, shapes and functions. Buildings mostly built for shelter. Buildings can shelter people, animals, machinery or anything.

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