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LIVING THINGS
What are living things?
Living things are those things which can produce offspring. Any living thing is called an organism, but we usually call them by common names, such as plants and animals.
Everything in the world is either living or non-living. An example of a living thing, or organism, is a spider, a cactus or a human being (picture ). An example of a non- living thing is a piece of rock or a computer. (We use the term non-living instead of dead because, for something to be dead, it must once have been alive. A non-living thing has never been alive.)
Living things can be huge and easy
to recognise as being alive, for example,
a whale. At the other end of the scale, living things can be so small that it takes a
  The difference between the lichen, which is the coloured patch, and the rock, is that the lichen is a living thing, whereas the rock is a non-living thing.
  How we group living things.
Plants
Organisms (living things)
Animals
(for example, humans, fish, insects, birds)
Micro-organisms (microbes)
(for example, trees, grass, flowers)
Insects
MaMMals
Birds
Fish