Diversity of Organisms

When scientists classify organisms, they put them into groups based on ____________.

• differences

• similarities

• class

• order

The broadest group to classify organisms is the ________.

• phylum

• class

• kingdom

• genus

What is an animal with a backbone called?

• vertebrate

• invertebrate

________ are animals without a backbone.

• Vertebrates

• Invertebrates

What are two groups to classify plants?

• nonvascular and vascular

• Vascular and liverwort

• liverwort and hornwort

• pine tree and nonvascular

_______ cannot make their own food, so they absorb it from dead or decaying organisms.

• Plants

• Pant-like protists

• Fungi

What are the oldest living organisms on earth?

• Protists

• Fungi

• Bacteria

__________ can be plant-like, animal like, or fungi like.

• Nonvascular plants

• Fungi

• Protists

• Vascular plants

Plants with tubes that transport food and water are called ______.

• vascular plants

• nonvascular plants

Plants that transport water and other substances directly from the ground into their cells are called _______.

• nonvascular plants

• vascular plants