SESE Living Things Living Creatures Living creatures All

SESE Living Things Living Creatures

Living creatures All living creatures have to do the following things: • Feed • Reproduce • Grow • Move • Sense

Living creatures Feed All animals need to find and eat food to get energy. This energy helps them to move and grow.

Living creatures Reproduce All animals have babies. This is called reproducing.

Living creatures Grow All animals start life as a baby and grow until they become an adult.

Living creatures Sense All animals have to be able to use their senses to find out information about the world. They can do this by seeing, hearing, tasting, touching or smelling things.

Living creatures Move All creatures have to be able to move. They move to find food, escape things trying to eat them and to find a mate.

Living creatures Answers Reproduce – Producing babies Sense – Reacting to the things around you Grow – Getting bigger Feed – Eating food Move – Moving parts of the body

What’s for dinner? What do you like to eat? All animals have a particular type of food which they like to eat. Most animals have bodies which are developed especially to help them catch what they like to eat. Can you work out what these animals like to eat?

What’s for dinner? I have long whiskers which I use to find animals living on the ground at the bottom of the sea. Seal Pelicans Photo credit Allie Hylton Sea cucumbers Photo credit Rudy Tiben Crocodiles

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Yes, I eat sea cucumbers! Photo credit Rudy Tiben These strange animals live at the bottom of the sea.

What’s for dinner? I have big strong jaws. I can swim really quickly which helps me to catch my dinner. Blacktip Reef Shark Penguins Fish Black tip Reef Shark Gazelles Photo credit John Beckett

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That’s right, I eat fish! Some species of fish can swim really quickly. In order to catch them, their predators have to be even quicker!

What’s for dinner? I have long poisonous tentacles which I use to catch my dinner. Jellyfish Plankton Otters Tuna

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That’s right, I eat plankton! Plankton are the smallest creatures in the ocean. They live in water all across the world.

What’s for dinner? I have powerful jaws which I use for crushing the shells of my food. Cownose Ray Salmon Sea snakes Mussels Photo credit Gavin Mills

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That’s right, I eat mussels! Photo credit Gavin Mills Mussels have a strong shell which they use to protect themselves, although this doesn’t put off some creatures!

What’s for dinner? I live in warm waters. I swim quite slowly and use my sharp beak to catch my dinner. Sea turtle Dolphins Photo credit Sias van Schalkwyk Starfish Jellyfish Photo credit Paul Caputo

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No, try again… Photo credit Sias van Schalkwyk

Yes, I eat jellyfish! Photo credit Paul Caputo Jellyfish live in all of the world’s oceans. They move through the water very slowly.