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Which kingdom does this life
form belong in?
• A life form will appear on the screen
• Can you sort it into the correct kingdom:
animals, fungi, plants or bacteria?
• Write your answer on a whiteboard.
• You score a point for each correct answer.
Are there any features or
adaptations that may help
you?
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This life form belongs in the kingdom of the:
Which kingdom does this life
form belong in?
Features that you may have use to help you sort
this living thing into the correct kingdom:
• each bacterium is a single cell
• it is very simple in structure
• it cannot usually control where it moves to and it has no sense
organs
• it feeds off living or dead things which it comes across by chance.
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This life form belongs in the kingdom of the:
Which kingdom does this life
form belong in?
Are there any features or
adaptations that may help
you?
Features that may have used to help you sort this
living thing into the correct kingdom:
• it is large – made of billions of cells – and it has senses
• it moves around and must find food to survive. Animals cannot
produce their own food inside their bodies and must eat other
living things to survive.
It has many adaptations that help it survive. Can you think of any?
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This life form belongs in the kingdom of the:
Which kingdom does this life
form belong in?
Features that you may have used to help you sort
this living thing into the correct kingdom:
• it has broad flat leaves. Not all plants have
leaves, but most do, which they use to collect
energy from sunlight.
Are there any features or
adaptations that may help
you?
They have many adaptations which allow them to collect light
and nutrients from the air and soil.
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This life form belongs in the kingdom of the:
Which kingdom does this life
form belong in?
Features that you may have used to help you sort
this living thing into the correct kingdom:
• it can move around – it has to look for food to
survive
• it is made up of billions of cells and it is very complex
• it has basic senses of touch, taste and sight plus some
astounding adaptations!
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This life form belongs in the kingdom of the:
Which kingdom does this life
form belong in?
Features that you may have used to help you sort
this living thing into the correct kingdom:
• there are no leaves on this mushroom so it is not
a plant
• its umbrella shape shelters billions of spores which fly into
the air to spread and create new offspring
• fungi like this feed off rotting and waste materials.
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This life form belongs in the kingdom of the:
Which kingdom does this life
form belong in?
Are there any features or
adaptations that may help
you?
In this image, the green bacteria is in the
animal’s blood. It is being attacked by
white blood cells, which can surround
and eat bacteria.
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GAME OVER!
How did you do?
Features that you may have used to help you sort this
living thing into the correct kingdom:
• it has a the flower head and is green in colour.
Plants only started developing flowers about 140 million years
ago, even though plants have been growing and evolving on Earth for about
3.5 billion years. This is a pitcher plant which mainly feeds on trapped
animals, such as frogs and insects – they crawl into the funnels and can’t get
out. Here they are slowly digested in a pool of juices!
Do you understand the four kingdoms a little better
now? Is there one kingdom that you really would like
to know more about? Try searching on the web for
some of the more unusual adaptations of animals,
plants, fungi and bacteria.
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