Life Science Review

How is classifying living things helpful to scientists?

• Scientists all over the world know certain things about animals based on their classification.

• Scientists know where in the zoo each animal should live.

• Scientists can easily determine if an animal is cool or lame.

This is the smallest unit of an organism.

• Bacteria

• Invertebrate

• Cell

• Protists

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The six main groups into which living things are sorted are called:

• Domains

• Phylums

• Families

• Kingdoms

A group of similar living things that can mate and produce offspring are called:

• Phylum

• Species

• Class

• Genus

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Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, _________, Genus, Species

This type of plant contains tubes that transport water and nutrients throughout the plant.

• Vascular

• Nonvascular

What type of plant reproduces through spores?

• Flowering Plants

• Conifers

• Ferns

An invertebrate is:

• An animal without a head

• An animal without a backbone

• An animal without a brain

Draw an example of an invertebrate.

Which of the following is NOT an invertebrate?

• Jellyfish

• Tarantula

• Octopus

• Lizard

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