Classification-Flocabulary

Taxonomy is....

• one of the three domains of life

• The science of classifying and naming living things

• organisms with spinal cords in their backs

• one of the six kingdoms of life

True or false an organism's scientific name tells you the family in which the organism belongs

• true

• false

Organisms are classified based on...

• the number of them that exists in a species

• similarities and evolutionary relationships

• their Greek names

• the year their fossils are discovered

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

An organisms scientific name identifies the ...... and the ..... in which the organism belongs

• genus, species

• family, species

• order, genus

• class order

Which of the following lists the eight levels of classification in the correct order?

• domain, king, class, phylum, family, order, genus, species

• domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species

• kingdom, domain, phylum, order, class, family, genus, species

humans are in the domain

• mammalia

• animalia

• hominidae

• eukarya

what characteristic do all organisms in the phylum Chordata share?

• they grow in cocoons

• they feed milk to their young

• they have spinal cords

What does sapiens mean in Latin?

• wise

• ape

• upright

• brain

Who was Lucy, the Australopithecus afarensis?

• a scientist who came up with the system of classification

• a paleoanthropologist who discovered an extinct hominid

• an extinct hominid who lived about 3 million years ago

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

animalia is one of ....... kingdoms of life

• six

• eight