Classifying Living Things

Open Ended

What is ONE yes/no question that you can ask to identify these two bears as a group?

Multiple Choice

Define taxonomy

• The study of describing and classifying organisms

• The study of the evolutionary relationships between organisms

• The study of taxidermy

• The study of cells

Draw

Fill in the table below with items from your kitchen that belong to each group.

Multiple Choice

What role did Linnaeus play in classification of organisms?

• He classified all life into plants and animals.
• He classified all life by where organisms lived.
• He started naming organisms using binomial nomenclature.
• He utilized DNA technology to form the modern system of naming.

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct order of classification from LARGEST to SMALLEST

• Species, Genus, Family, Order, Class, Phylum, Kingdom

• Family, Kingdom, Order, Phylum, Class, Order, Species, Genus

• Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species

• Phylum, Order, Species, Family, Genus, Kingdom

Multiple Choice

What is the most specific level of classification?

• Family

• Kingdom

• Species

• Order

Open Ended

Creating our own mnemonic for the linnaeus system of classification.  

Multiple Choice

Which two organisms are least closely related?

• two organisms from the same kingdom
• two organisms from the same order
• two organisms from the same family
• two organisms from the same genus

Multiple Choice

The scientific name for an organism is made from the:

• class and family name

• genus and species name

• order and kingdom name

• kingdom and phylum name

Multiple Choice

Which two of the three species are more closely related?

• Grand panda and polar bear

• Polar bear and grizzly bear

• Great panda and grizzly bear

Labelling

1. Use the common name for the three animals in the table below to fill out the table.

Hint: Wikipedia will help

Drag labels to their correct position on the image

Gorilla

Hominidae

Primates

Animalia

Mammalia

Chordata