Life Science: Classification

The science of naming and classifying organisms is called

• taxonomy
• generalization
• biology

• life science

What is the broadest level of classification out of these options?

• Kingdom

• Species

• Genus

• Phylum

What level comes immediately after "order" in the classification levels?

• Family

• Genus

• Phylum

• Class

What levels are used to create a scientific name?

• genus and species
• kingdom and phylum
• class and order
• class and family

What is the proper way to write a scientific name?

• capitalize the first letter of the genus but not the species and underline or italicize the entire name

• capital letters for all letters and underline or italicize the name

• capital letters for the first letter of the genus and species and underline or italicize the entire name

• lower case letters for all letters and underline or italicize the entire name

Why is classification necessary?

• to organize all the organisms that live on earth

• it is something for scientists to do

• we don't classify organisms because it is too much work

Under what Kingdom would you find humans?

• Animal

• Plant

• Fungi

• Protista

Giving living organisms a two-part name is called?

• Taxonomy

• Binomial Nomenclature

• Classification

• Kingdom Phylum

Which is the process of grouping things based on their similarities?

• Taxonomy

• Scientific Sortation

• Classification

• Groupology

Organisms in the Kingdom Animalia are mostly unicellular Eukaryotes.

• True

• False