Chapter 1 Classifying Organisms

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

• dichotomous key

• kingdom

• metamorphosis

• classify

An animal without a backbone

• species

• class

• vertebrate

• invertebrate

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

• kingdom

• class

• metamorphosis

• species

The highest level of classification under domain.

• kingdom

• invertebrate

• vertebrate

• class

The lowest level of classification

• vertebrate

• species

• dichotomous key

• kingdom

An animal with a backbone

• metamorphosis

• classify

• vertebrate

• invertebrate

To put organisms into groups

• species

• invertebrate

• vertebrate

• classify

Changes in an organism's life cycle

• kingdom

• classify

• species

• 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?

• animal

• plant

• bacteria

What are two characteristics that allow an elephant, insect, and bird to be classified together?

• They are multicellular

• They can move

• They cannot make their own food