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Literature

Frozen Frogs
Read the Literature feature in your textbook.

Write About It
Response to Literature This article describes a frog during
winter. What is the frog doing? What has happened to its body?
Choose an animal to write about. Write an essay describing the
process that this animal goes through to survive severe weather
conditions, such as cold winters or hot summers.

Students’ essays should be written in a logical order with an introductory

sentence about the animal they have chosen, details about the process
the animal goes through to survive severe weather conditions, and a
closing sentence.
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Unit A • Diversity of Life

Reading and Writing
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Concept Map

Classifying Living Things

Complete the concept map on the characteristics that
describe all living things, including both plants and animals,
using terms and phrases from your textbook.

The Diversity of Life

Structures of plants Classifications of plants Examples of plant

include are broken down by adaptations
kingdom, include thorns,
roots ,
division , tropisms ,
stems, and
class, order, and two methods of
leaves .
family , reproduction .
genus, and species.

Plants

Living things are Living things also

made of cells , reproduce ,
they respond to their grow, and
Living Things
environment , develop .
and they obtain and

use energy .

Animals

Animals can be Classifications of Examples of animal

vertebrates or animals are broken adaptions include
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down by kingdom, camouflage,

invertebrates .
Animals have either phylum , mimicry ,
endoskeletons or class, order, family, and insulation.
genus, and
exoskeletons .
species .

Chapter 1 • Classifying Living Things

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