Classification Practice #2 (Focus)

Fill in the Blanks

is the branch of biology that classifies organisms and assigns each organism a universally accepted name.

Fill in the Blanks

_____________ ___________ is the system of assigning a scientific name using two parts

Reorder

Levels of Classification

• Kingdom

• Phylum

• Class

• Order

• Family

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• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

Reorder

Place in Order: Levels of Classification

• Class

• Order

• Family

• Genus

• Species

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• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

Reorder

Levels of Classification

• Domain

• Kingdom

• Order

• Family

• Species

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2

3

4

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• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

Multiple Choice

The pictures show four types of organisms. Which of these would you most expect to be true if these organisms were classified by their physical characteristics only.

• organisms 1 and 3 would be in the same species

• organisms 2 and 4 would be in the same genus

• organisms 1 and 3 would be more closely related than organisms 2 and 4

• organisms 2 and 4 would be more closely related than organisms 1 and 3

Multiple Choice

Kayla listed several important questions that scientists try to answer when they classify organisms. Her list included the following questions: How many living things are there? What are the characteristics that define living things? What additional question would be best for Kayla to add to her list about classification.

• How are living things related?

• How do living things get energy?

• What do living things need to survive?

• Where do living things make their home?

Multiple Choice

Taxonomy is the science of describing, classifying, and naming living things. Which classification includes all protists, fungi, plants, and animals?

• Phylum Chordata

• Class Mammalia

• Domain Eukarya

• Order Carnivora

Multiple Choice

The broadest level of Classfication of organisms is the _______________

• Phylum

• Species

• Genus

• Kingdom

Multiple Choice

Organisms in the same Class will be in the same Order

• true

• false

• maybe

• can be

Multiple Choice

What is the second broadest on the level of classification of orgnimsms?

• kingdom

• phylum

• class

• order

Multiple Choice

As the levels od classification go down, it becomes more ______________

• specific

• complicated

• complex

• none of the above

Multiple Choice

In writing the Scientific name, the species should always in ____________

• upper case

• lower case

• upper and lower

• none of the above

Multiple Choice

Why is it important to use Scientific names?

• it is recognized all around the world

• it is harder to understand

• it is English words

• none of the above

Multiple Choice

Who is the Father of Taxonomy?

• Carolus Linnaeus

• Albert Einstein

• Henry Ford

• Protist Protista

Multiple Choice

Plant and Animals belong to the same kingdom

• true

• false

• maybe

• soon

Multiple Choice

All species of bats are members of the kingdom Animalia. They are classified as animals because —

• their cells have cell walls.
• they feed on other organisms.
• their cells are large.
• they can move quickly.

Multiple Choice

Escherichia coli, or E. coli, is a single-celled, prokaryotic organism. These characteristics require E. coli to be classified in the kingdom —

• Protista.
• Bacteria.
• Plantae
• Fungi

Multiple Choice

What is the broadest classification?

• domain

• phyla

• order

• species

Multiple Choice

What is the binomial nomenclature of the gopher?

• Thomomysus bottoe

• Animalia chordata

• Geomidyae thomomysus

Multiple Choice

What is the binomial nomenclature of the dog?

• Canis familiaris

• Canis lupus

• Carnivora canidae

Multiple Select

What are the three domains of the Levels of Classification? (more than one answer)

• Eukarya

• Bacteria

• Prokarya

• Archaea

Multiple Choice

All animals that we will be learning about are in the Domain ________________.

• Monera

• Archaea

• Bacteria

• Eukarya

Multiple Choice

 

All animals that we will be learning about are in the Kingdom ________________.

• Bacteria

• Animalia

• Protista

• Fungi

Multiple Choice

Animals that eat mostly meat are in the Order....

• Herbivore

• Omnivore

• Autotroph

• Carnivora

Multiple Choice

The more classification levels that two organisms share,

• the closer together on earth they live.

• the easier it is to tell them apart.

• the more related they become because of many shared characteristics.

• the more distance is between them due to lack of shared characteristics.