Life+Today.+Classifying+Species.+Kingdoms.+Animals

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How do we group living things? Like grouping books, we look for what's the same about a group of living things.

Before Linnaeus, there wasn't any system.

The Bible talked about __kinds__ of living things, but sometimes it meant a species, like cattle, and sometimes it meant a group, like __ creatures that move __.

Since Linnaeus, we look carefully at the creatures themselves.

The way living things are classified keeps changing as we find out more.

Some of the main groups are __ animals __, __ plants __ , __ fungi __ and __ bacteria __.


 * [[image:anemone.jpg width="129" height="135" align="right"]] || [[image:nautilus.jpg width="129" height="136" align="right"]] || [[image:leaf_insect.jpg width="101" height="137" align="right"]] || [[image:angelfish.jpg width="136" height="136" align="right"]] || [[image:panda.jpg width="100" height="137" align="right"]] ||
 * Sea anemone || Nautilus || Leaf insect || Angelfish || Panda ||

These are all __animals.__ Animals live by eating other living things.