WHAT IS AN S ANIMAL Animals are as different as a starfish and an ostrich a tuna and a gibbon Yet they are alike because they have features in common Animals are living things that eat food move and sense and react to the world around them Animals need to get food to survive Some animals do this by killing other
We can tell different types of animals apart by looking at the structure of their bodies Most animals have no backbone These are invertebrates Some animals including people have backbones They are vertebrates As Many structural features help animals survive These are called Beak adaptations For example bats have wings to fly so they can find food and escape danger THINK ABOUT IT A shark looks very different from a tree What are the ways animals are different from plants A bird's beak is an adaptation to help it catch
WORMs Worms are soft long invertebrates Some worms are A fat and some are very thin like threads Others are flat I like ribbons Some worms are so tiny you can hardly A see them while others grow up to 100 feet 30 m long Worms are found all over the world except where the ground is frozen or too dry for them to survive Some flatworms that live in the sea are X brightly
THINKAEOUT IT Earthworms have tiny spikes along their bodies How do you think these structures help them move underground Earthworms live and feed in rich damp soil Earthworms have mouths at one end of their bodies which take in soil as they wriggle through it They sift out food from the soil and dump the waste dirt Some worms feed off of other animals Tapeworms live inside the guts of other animals and take in food from the gut through the walls of their
