Six Kingdoms of Life

What type of living things do you see around you?​

• plants? animals?

• If you could shrink to the size of a cell you could probably even see dust mites>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

• ​At this size, you would most definitely see bacteria (a microscopic life form that lives just about everywhere)

​Kingdoms

• One system of classification groups all living things into one of six kingdoms: Archaebacteria, Eubacteria, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, or Animalia.​

• ​To classify a living thing into one of the kingdoms, scientists ask three questions?

• Does it have prokaryotic (simple) or eukaryotic (complex) cells?

• Is it single-celled or multicellular?

  Does it get energy by making its own food (a producer) or by getting food from other organisms (a consumer)?

Multiple Choice

What are the six kingdoms of living organisms?

• Archaebacteria, eubacteria, animalia, plantae, fungi, protista

• Archaea, plants, Krypton, Uranium, Protista, Animals

• Molecules, Cells, Tissues, Organs, Organ Systems, Organisms

• kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species.​

Categorize

Options (6)

Eubacteria

Animalia

Archaea

Plantae

Fungi

Protista

Organize these options into the right categories

Prokaryotic

Eukaryotic

Bacteria

• Bacteria are the simplest of all living things. They have prokaryotic cells and are single-celled organisms.

• Some bacteria can produce their own food while others break down food and absorb it.

• ​Primitive bacteria have been found living in hot springs and deep sea vents. Because of this discovery, many scientists divide bacteria into two kingdoms.

• Under this system, Kingdom Archaebacteria are the primitive bacteria and Kingdom Eubacteria are the “true” bacteria.

Multiple Choice

Which type of bacteria is also known as "true bacteria"?

• Archaebacteria

• Eubacteria

• Microbacterial

​Protista

• Members of the Kingdom Protista are called protists. Protists are an odd group of organisms.

• They are mostly single-celled, though there are some multicellular protists.

• All protists have eukaryotic cells.

• Some protists can produce their own food while others get their energy by eating other organisms.

Multiple Choice

What is something all protists have in common?

• They are unicellular

• They are Multicellular

• They all have eukaryotic cells

• They all have prokaryotic cells

Fungi​

• ​Kingdom Fungi includes the fungi: mushrooms, molds, and yeasts.

  You may have seen members of this kingdom growing on rotting logs in the woods. Fungi are important because they break down rotting things and return the nutrients to the soil.

• ​Fungi have eukaryotic cells and most (except yeasts) are multicellular.

Plantae​

• The Kingdom Plantae is made up of multicellular organisms that have eukaryotic cells.

• In a process called photosynthesis, plants harness energy from the sun and store it in the form of molecules.

  When animals eat the plants, they use these molecules as energy to survive.

• Examples of plants include mosses, ferns, trees, and flowering plants.​

​Animalia

• Like plants, animals are multicellular organisms that have eukaryotic cells.

• Unlike plants, all animals need to eat other organisms to get their energy.

• Beetles, worms, snakes, and birds are animals. You are also an animal.​

​Levels of Classification

• Organisms belonging to the same kingdom are not necessarily very similar.

• As levels get smaller, organisms share more characteristics.

• Organisms in the same order share more characteristics than organisms in the same class.

• For animals, the levels of classification are kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species.​

Multiple Choice

Fill in the remaining parts of the levels of classification in order...

Domain, ____, phylum, class, ____, family, ____, and species.​

• kingdom, order, genus

• genus, kingdom, order

• order, genus, kingdom

• kingdom, genus, order

Multiple Choice

Which kingdom do humans belong to?

• Plantae

• Fungi

• Animalia

• Protista

Multiple Choice

Which Kingdom?

• Animalia

• Plantae

• Fungi

• Archaea

Multiple Choice

Which Kingdom?

• Animalia

• Plantae

• Fungi

• Protista

Multiple Choice

Which Kingdom?

• Protista

• Plantae

• Animalia

• Fungi

Multiple Choice

The characteristics of a particular organism are listed below.  

In which kingdom should this organism be classified?

• Fungi

• Eubacteria

• Plantae

• Animalia

Multiple Choice

Which kingdom do YOU belong in?

• Animalia

• Protista

• Plantae

• Archaea