Classification & Taxonomy

What is a Heterotroph?

• A producer
• An organism that makes its own food
• A consumer or decomposer

How many Domains are there?
Name them:

• 3; Archaea, Bacteria, Eukarya
• 2; Bacteria, Eukarya
• 1; Eukarya
• 3; Bacteria, Eukarya, Protists

How many Kingdoms are there?

• 3
• 6
• 5
• 4

A dichotomous key for trees is provided. Hikers found a tree that has large brown cones and single sharp needles. What species of tree have the hikers found?

• Juniper
• Pine
• Spruce
• Fir

What is the correct way to write the scientific name correctly?

• Genus species
• genus Species
• Genus Species
• genus species

What is the correct order of taxonomy?

• Kingdom, pylum, class, species, genus, family, class
• Species, genus, family, order, class, phylum, kingdom
• Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species
• species, phylum, order, class, kingdom, family, genus

Organisms in the Kingdom Animalia are

• mutlicellular and heterotrophic
• multicellular and autotrophic
• unicellular and autotrophic
• unicellular and autotrophic

Which of the following groups would contain the largest number of organisms? 

• class
• order
• phylum
• family

Which of the following organisms are LEAST closely related?

• organisms that share a domain
• organisms that share a family 
• organisms that share a genus 
• organisms that share a species 

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-3

Plant an animal classification is based on what?

• acquired similarities
• structural similarities
• molecular similarities
• environmental similarities

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2