Classifying Life/Microscope Quizizz

All organisms have names that include

• class and order
• order and family
• genus and species

Binomial nomenclature makes it easier for scientists to communicate because ...

• everyone speaks latin
• everyone uses the same scientific name
• everyone knows all the animals
• its fun to call organisms by name

The first word in an organism's scientific name is its

• genus
• species
• phylum
• Domain

This man devised a system to name organisms in the 1700s.

• Thomas Edison
• Copernicus
• Carolus Linnaeus
• Fransico Redi

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

A dichotomous key for insects is given. To what order does an insect with two pairs of scaly wings belong?

• Coleoptera
• Heteroptera
• Diptera
• Lepidoptera

What is the total magnification of a microscope with two lenses when one lens has a magnification of 10x, and the other lens has a magnification of 30x?

• 15x
• 30x
• 40x
• 300x

A microscope is an instrument that.

• makes faraway objects look closer.
• makes small objects appear larger.
• decreases the size of small objects.
• increases the size of small objects.

If the eyepiece of your scope has a power of 10, and the selected objective lens has a power of 20,what is the total magnification?

• 20x
• 30x
• 200x
• 2000x

If your teacher asks you to move a microscope to table, how do you carry it?

• by the body tube and the eyepiece
• with one hand
• one hand on the arm and the other under the base
• with one hand on the base and the other on the eyepiece.