Characteristics of Life & Classification

Autotrophs, such as plant like protists, can provide their own food for energy through the process of

• Photosynthesis

• Respiration

• Ingestion

• External Source of Food

What is NOT an example of an autotroph?

• Hawk

• Apple Tree

• Rose

• Snake Plant

What is the term used to describe any change in an organism’s surroundings that will cause the organism to react?  

• Stimuli

• Reproduction

• Development

• Response

What is taxonomy?

• The study of how scientists classify organisms. 

• The study of how scientists classify rocks

• The process used by scientists to classify storms.

• The process of observing an organism’s behavior

An organism’s scientific name consists of:

• Its class name and its family name

• Its kingdom name and its phylum name

• Its genus name and its species name

• Its phylum name and its species name

One characteristic used to place organisms into kingdoms is to determine if they are an autotroph or heterotroph. These terms relate to an organisms...

• How they move

• Where they live

• Their ability to make food

• Their ability to reproduce

The more classification levels that two organism share,

• The closer together on Earth they live

• The easier it is to tell them apart

• The more characteristics they have in common

• The more distantly related they are

A rock is considered ________ .

• Living

• Nonliving

• Dormant

• Dead

What is binomial nomenclature?

• system of 3 names

• system of 2 names

• the names of the kingdoms

• the levels of classification

Which of the following is the correct way to show the scientific name for tiger?

• Panthera Tigris

• Panthera tigris

• panthera Tigris

• panthera tigris