Living being has life in it. All animate things are thus living beings.

 

All living things are divided into seven categories using Latin terms that can be understood worldwide. They progressively get smaller and more numerous, and each contains less living things. Classification of living things is used to help identify different animals and to group them together with their relatives.

The first and largest category is the Kingdom. To date there are five kingdoms: Animalia, which is made up of animals; Plantae, which is made up of plants; Protista, which is made up of protists (single-celled creatures invisible to the human eye); Fungi, which is made up of mushrooms, mold, yeast, lichen, etc; and Monera, which is made up of the three types of bacteria. It is further divided into Phylum, Class, Order, Families, genus and species. Sometimes each category is broken into sub-categories.

Most animals are given common names recognized outside of the scientific community and that these names may be different in each country. For example, in Canada, a certain type of spider is known as the daddy long-legs and is known as the harvester spider in the United States.  However, the Latin term remains the same.