Classification

Classification

Grouping things according to similar characteristics

Open Ended

What do you group together that makes your life easier?

Multiple Choice

To put similar organisms into groups is callled

• taxonomy

• classification

• dichotomous key

• phylum

• Aristotle came up with the first classification system. He grouped animals by how they moved.

Open Ended

Why don't we use this system today?

• Frogs can swim and hop

• Bats can fly but they are not birds

• Dolphins live in water but they have lungs for breathing air.

Multiple Choice

Who came up with the old system of classification?

• Newton

• Leewenhoek

• Aristotle

• Darwin

Binomial Nomenclature

• Two name naming system

• Genus and Species name

Multiple Select

Which characteristics do you think are the most important when describing an organism?

• color

• number of cells

• how they reproduce

• how they get food

• body structure

6 Kingdoms of Living Things

Archea

Found in extreme conditions like heat, cold, salt water or places without oxygen

Characteristics

• unicellular, prokaryotic, sessile,

• found in extreme environments

Multiple Select

Where are some places you might find archaebacteria?

• stomach

• extremely hot water

• areas with no oxygen

• extremely cold areas

• on your hands

Monera/ Eubacteria

• unicellular, prokaryotic

• found in common places

Protists

• unicellular, eukaryotic

• motile

• Autotroph and Heterotroph

Fungi

• Eukaryotic

• sessile

• most or Multicellular

• heterotrophs

• have a cell wall

Multiple Choice

Which Kingdom has organisms that can be both autotrophs and heterotrophs?

• Archea

• Monera

• Protist

• Fungi

Plant

• Multicellular

• Sessile

• Autotrophs

• Eukaryotic

• Cell wall

Animal

• Heterotrophs

• Multicellular

• Most are motile

• no cell walls

Fill in the Blanks

How many Kingdoms are there?