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A life cycle shows how a living thing grows and changes. While plants life cycles keep going, a plant's life begins with the seed. With water, right temperature and right location, the seed grows. It becomes a seedling. Roots push down into the ground to get water and minerals.

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Explore the amazing world of animals for kids with our range of free games, cool science fair projects, interesting quizzes, fun facts, amazing videos and more!

Learn about cats, dogs, insects, birds, spiders, sharks and all kinds of different animals. As well as activities for children, there are also lesson plans and worksheets for teachers, ideas for parents and a whole host of free teaching resources at your fingertips. Enjoy learning about animal science online right here at Science Kids.

Have fun learning about animals with these cool games. Enjoy a range of interactive activities that will help you understand more about the incredible world of animals.

Take a look at these great animal videos. Watch giant octopus in action, dolphins doing remarkable tricks, learn about some of the fastest animals in the world, find out what makes bees special, how puffer fish defend themselves and much more.

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Scientists often refer to an animal by the genus and species only. For this reason humans are often referred to as homo sapiens. By the time it gets down to species, we are usually talking about the same animal, but with different coloring or other physical and even sometimes behavioral traits.

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Imagine an ecosystem as a tiny world within our world. Here, living things, like plants and animals, interact with non-living elements, including water, rocks, soil and temperature. Every portion of the ecosystem influences everything else. An ecosystem exists within a larger area called a biome.

Here's an example of an Ecosystem: The Sonoran Desert in Arizona is a harsh landscape. Within the desert, though, there are streams and creeks. Here, fish, birds, turtles and snakes live. There are trees and plants. This is one type of an ecosystem. In other parts of the desert, there is little water. Here, only a few plants, such as cactus can survive. The animals that live here - snakes, ground rats, and scorpions - must adapt to harsh conditions. This is a different ecosystem within the same biome.

Fun Facts About Ecosystems for Kids

Animals and plants within an ecosystem depend on each other for their survival. If conditions change, the animals and plants have to adapt.

Plants can't migrate when conditions change. During drought and heat, they might die. If they die, then herbivores won't have anything to eat. They must either find new plants to eat or move to a new place. If they move, then carnivores have no food. They must move too.

Sometime ecosystems change because of a climate change or a natural disaster. Sometimes, ecosystems are destroyed by humans.

Think about the ecosystems that might exist in your neighborhood or even in your own yard. If you have a vegetable garden, the plants attract plant-eating insects. The insects attract birds, snakes and frogs. These animals might attract predators, including fox, raccoons, coyotes and owls. Who knew there was so much going on right outside your door! A vegetable garden is a man-made ecosystem, but you get the idea.

Ecosystems Vocabulary

All About Ecosystems Video for Kids

This is the best video we found for kids to learn about Ecosystems:

Ecosystem Q&A

Question 1: How can I protect ecosystems in my area?

Answer 1: Pay attention to what you do in your own yard. Be careful with pesticides and fertilizers. Pesticides can poison birds, frogs and snakes. When fertilizers run into streams and rivers, they encourage algae to grow. The algae grow too much and smother other aquatic animals and plants. Grow flowering plants, vegetables and berries to give animals something to eat.

Question 2: What are the different types of Ecosystems?

Answer 2: The different types of environment ecosystems are as follows: Forest Ecosystems - Marine Ecosystems - Desert Ecosystems - Grassland Ecosystems - Tundra Ecosystems and Freshwater Ecosystems

Is the ecosystem important?

Answer 3: The ecosystem is very important. Without a healthy ecosystem we would suffer terribly or simply would not exist. We need to protect nature to protect our drinking water, our crops and even the air we breathe. Everyone should care about the ecosystem, no matter how old or how young. By caring today we are caring for tomorrow's world.

Question 4: What is destroying the ecosystem?

Answer 4: Unfortunately it's our Human daily activities that are causing harm to our ecosystem. Examples of this are: Over hunting (Rhino, Tigers, Elephants, Lions and many more). Over Fishing, Deforestation and of course pollution.

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Imagine an ecosystem as a tiny world within our world. Here, living things, like plants and animals, interact with non-living elements, including water, rocks, soil and temperature. Every portion of the ecosystem influences everything else. An ecosystem exists within a larger area called a biome.

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An ecosystem includes all of the living things in a given area, interacting with each other, and also with their non-living environments. Find out what the levels and organisations of ecosystems are.

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The plants and animals that are found in a particular location are referred to as an ecosystem. These plants and animals depend on each other to survive. In a delicate balance, these lifeforms help to sustain one another in regular patterns. Disruptions to an ecosystem can be disastrous to all organisms within the ecosystem.

As an example, consider what happens when a new plant or animal is introduced into an ecosystem where it did not before exist. The new organism competes with the natural organisms from that location for available resources. These unnatural strangers can push other organisms out, causing them to become extinct. This can then affect still other organisms that depended on the extinct organism as a source of food.

Throughout the history of the Earth, the delicate balance found within ecosystems has been disrupted by natural disasters such as fires, floods, storms, volcano eruptions, and so forth. In recent years, however, mankind has increasingly been affecting the many ecosystems around the world.

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The plants and animals that are found in a particular location are referred to as an ecosystem. These plants and animals depend on each other to survive. In a delicate balance, these lifeforms help to sustain one another in regular patterns. Disruptions to an ecosystem can be disastrous to all organisms within the ecosystem.

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Useful information about minibeasts

A basic overview of these fascinating animals.

Find out more about these small but crucially important animals.

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Masters of two wings.

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Information about these tentacle eyed garden dwellers.

Orb-weaving spiders that hunt at night.

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Australia has over 200 species of huntsman - this developing reference features clear photographs and distribution maps.

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Information about praying mantises, particularly those in Australia.
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Did you know we share our planet with over 1 million species of insects? That's a lot of bugs! Scientists are discovering more insects every day. Insects are also called arthropods. Some have wings, and some don't. But all have a few things in common.

Fun Facts about Insects for Kids

Insects don't have bones or a backbone like us. They're called invertebrates. That means they have a hard exoskeleton, or shell, on the outside of their bodies that protects them.

All insects have three parts: the head, the thorax, which is the middle part, and the abdomen, or end part.

Insects have two antennae. They also have six legs.

Spiders are not insects. Spiders have eight legs. They are related to scorpions and belong to the arachnid family.

All insects hatch from eggs. The babies are called larva.

All insects go through the same life cycle. Life begins as an egg. The egg hatches and larva emerge. Larvae usually look nothing like the adult insect. The larvae enter a pupa, chrysalis or cocoon. An adult insect emerges from the pupa.

Insect Vocabulary

Learn More All About Insects

Check out this awesome video about how insects in the animal kingdom interconnect:

A video documentary all about insects and their lives.

Insect Q&A

Question: How many insects live on the planet?

Answer: Insects make up over 90 percent of the animal life living on earth.
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Question: What's an Anthropod?

Answer: Actually there's no Anthropod insect. Anthropoids are actually something that is similar to the shape of a man, like a chimp. Some various extinct kangaroo species were called Anthropoids, as are also some non-living things such as machines or artworks.
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Question: What is an Arthropod?

Answer: Arthropods are invertebrate animals with segmented bodies, jointed limbs (legs) and cuticles. Spiders, insects, crabs and so forth are all arthropods. Their rigid cuticle inhibits growth, so arthropods replace it periodically by moulting.
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Question: How large is an Arthropod?

Answer: Arthropods range in size - from microscopic plankton up to a few meters long.
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Question: How many insects are Arthropoids?

Answer: Actually, all insects arthropods but not all arthropods are insects...
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Question: Are insects helpful?

Answer: Some insects, such as bees, help humans by pollinating crops. Others, like mosquitoes or fruit flies, can carry disease or damage crops.

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Did you know we share our planet with over 1 million species of insects? That's a lot of bugs! Scientists are discovering more insects every day. Insects are also called arthropods. Some have wings, and some don't. But all have a few things in common. Insects don't have bones or a backbone like us.

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Explore our wide variety of animal facts and learn some fun trivia about our friends in the animal kingdom.

Fun Insect Facts for Kids

Check out our fun insect facts for kids. Learn about different insect parts, which insects can walk on water, how ants communicate and much more.

Read on and enjoy a variety of interesting information about insects.

The number of insect species is believed to be between six and ten million.

Insect bodies have three parts, the thorax, abdomen and head.

Insects have two antennae.

Insects have three pairs of legs.

Some insects, such as gerridae (water striders), are able to walk on the surface of water.

Bees, termites and ants live in well organized social colonies.

Only male crickets chirp.

Insects are cold blooded.

Silkworms are used as the primary producer of silk.

Most insects hatch from eggs.

Some cicadas can make sounds nearly 120 decibels loud.

The life cycle of a mosquito features four stages, egg, larva, pupa and adult.

Female mosquitoes drink blood in order to obtain nutrients needed to produce eggs.

Spiders are not insects.

Bees are found on every continent except Antarctica.

Ants leave trails and communicate with each other using pheromones as chemical signals.

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Kids learn more about the science of the cell. Smallest biological form of life.

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Cells are the building blocks that create life. Ever wondered what makes up your skin, organs or muscles? Fasten your seatbelts. You are about to see a world that is all around you, and yet so small that you probably have never seen it. What is this world? It is the world inside your body and inside the bodies of all living things. It is the world of the cell. So, what is a cell?

Well, cells are like little factories inside of all living things that have a specific job. This job differs from cell to cell. For instance, nerve cells work together to help us think or move, whereas a blood cells help carry oxygen to our organs and muscles.

Cells build up almost everything around you, including you! As a matter of fact, they build up every living thing on Earth from the squirrels in your backyard to the trees they scurry up. In fact, living things are considered "living" because cells themselves are living. They are like these little units in our body that give us life.

Moreover, individual cells are even considered living things such as a bacteria cell. So when we talk about living things, we could be talking about one single cell or about a complex system of cells that work together to create something larger, like you!

In our bodies alone, there is thought to be around 37 trillion cells. These cells work together to create things that we need to help us live. In other words, cells like little factories inside your body working each day to create biological equipment to keep you alive, or any living thing alive.

How big are cells?

Cells range in size. From the largest, which are about the size of a period at the end of this sentence, to the smallest, which are so tiny they can only be seen with very powerful microscopes.

A couple of exceptionally large cells exist. One example is the yoke of an egg which is actually a very large cell. So, next time you are about to dig into a large fried egg, you are actually about to dig into an extremely large fried cell. Yum!

Types of Cells

Thousands of different cells exist here on Earth. In fact, cells are unique for each living thing. These cells can be broken up into two main categories: prokaryotic cells and eukaryotic cells. Prokaryotic cells have nuclei which are not bound by a membrane. Whereas, eukaryotic cells have nuclei which are bound by a membrane.

Moreover, eukaryotic cells are further grouped into two categories: animal cells and plant cells. Cells that form us and the animals around us are animal cells. Whereas, cells that make the leaves on a tree or the petals on a flower are called plant cells.

What's inside a cell?

Inside a cell are tiny organs called cell organelles. In fact, the word organelle is just a big word which means small organ. These organelles are responsible for providing all the needs of the cell. They work to bring in food supplies, get rid of waste, protect the cell, repair the cell, and help it grow and reproduce.

Organelles in a cell are much like organs in our body. Each one has a specific job to complete for the cell. And, if one organelle within the cell stops completing its job, then the cell will die.

Written by: Lauren Lacey

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Cells are the building blocks that create life. In fact, they build up almost everything around you, including you! Every living thing on Earth is made up of lots of organized cells. These cells work together to create things that we need to help us live.

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Visit OLogy, the Museum's science website for kids, to find free dinosaur games and activities. Learn how to draw what a dinosaur looked like, match eight dinosaur fossil photos with their descriptions, reconstruct and identify a fossil skeleton, and much more!

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All living organisms on Earth are divided into cells. The main concept of cell theory is that cells are the basic structural unit for all organisms. Cells are small compartments that hold the biological equipment necessary to keep an organism alive and successful. Living things may be single-celled or they may be very complex such as a human being.

There are smaller pieces that make up cells such as macromolecules and organelles. A protein is an example of a macromolecule while a mitochondrion is an example of an organelle. Cells can also connect to form larger structures. They might group together to form the tissues of the stomach and eventually the entire digestive system. However, in the same way that atoms are the basic unit when you study matter, cells are the basic unit for biology and organisms.

In larger organisms, the main purpose of a cell is to organize. Cells hold a variety of pieces and each cell type has a different purpose. By dividing responsibilities among different groups of cells, it is easier for an organism to survive and grow.

If you were only made of one cell, you would be very limited. You don't find single cells that are as large as a cow. Cells have problems functioning when they get too big. Also, if you were only one cell you couldn't have a nervous system, no muscles for movement, and using the internet would be out of the question. The trillions of cells in your body make your way of life possible.

There are many types of cells. In biology class, you will usually work with plant-like cells and animal-like cells. We say "animal-like" because an animal type of cell could be anything from a tiny microorganism to a nerve cell in your brain. Biology classes often take out a microscope and look at single-celled microbes from pond water. You might see hydra, amoebas, or euglena.

Plant cells are easier to identify because they have a protective structure called a cell wall made of cellulose. Plants have the wall; animals do not. Plants also have organelles such as the green chloroplast or large, water-filled vacuoles. Chloroplasts are the key structure in the process of photosynthesis.

Cells are unique to each type of organism. If you look at very simple organisms, you will discover cells that have no defined nucleus ( prokaryotes) and other cells that have hundreds of nuclei ( multinucleated).

Humans have hundreds of different cell types. You have red blood cells that are used to carry oxygen (O ₂) through the body and other cells specific to your heart muscle. Even though cells can be very different, they are basically compartments surrounded by some type of membrane.

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