Chapter 1 - Classification

A chart with many choices that guide you to the name of an organism or object you want to identify.

• dichotomous key

• identification table

• answer key

• metamorphosis

an animal without a backbone

• vertebrate

• invertebrate

• camel

• falcon

the level that the phyla are divided into (level below phylum)

• kingdom

• domain

• class

• species

the highest level of classification under domain

• class

• phylum

• species

• kingdom

the lowest level of classification

• species

• class

• phylum

• genus

an animal with a backbone

• invertebrate

• vertebrate

• mollusk

• annelid

to put organisms into groups

• identify

• observation

• classify

• comparison

changes in an organism's life cycle

• death

• fungi

• classify

• metamorphosis

An elephant, insect, and bird are very different, and yet they are all classified in the same group. What kingdom do they all belong in?

• plant

• animal

• fungi

• protists

What are two characteristics that allow animals to be in the same kingdom?

• multicellular

• cannot make food

• can move

• all the above