Classifying Living Things

Scientists place organisms into one of six groups. These groups are also called what?

• Kingdoms

• Classes

• Orders

• Traits

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Which of the following is NOT one of the smaller groups in a kingdom?

• Phylum

• Class

• Order

• Trait

Organisms in the same kingdom have ______________ traits.

• Similar

• Different

• Many

A kingdom is divided into smaller groups. These groups are phylum, class, order, _______________, genus, and species.

• Trait

• Group

• Family

• Classify

1. The science of classifying living things is called____.

• Identification

• Classification

• Taxonomy

• Speciation

The red maple is also know as Acer rubrum.. Its scientific name is _____.

• Red Maple

• Acer

• Rubrum

• Acer Rubrum

Nearly all single-celled eukaryotes that are either heterotrophic or photosynthetic belong to the kingdom ___.

• Animalia

• Fungi

• Plantae

• Protista

An organism that breaks down dead and dying organic matter, which it then absorbs, is in the kingdom __________.

• Fungi

• Plantae

• Animalia

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A group of closely related genera is called _______.

• Order

• Family

• Class

• Genus

Scientific names are ___________ because they consist of two words.

• Heirarchial

• Ordered

• Taxonomic

• Binomial