Quiz about Classification

Question 1

a category of classification below a phylum

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Class

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Kingdon

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Domain

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Phylum

Question 2

to arrange something into groups according to similarities

Accepted Answer

Classify

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Family

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Kingdon

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Orginize

Question 3

the largest division used to classify living things

Accepted Answer

Domain

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Class

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Genus

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Species

Question 4

a category of classification below an order

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Family

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Domain

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Order

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Class

Question 5

a group of related plant species or animal species

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Genus

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Family

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Cousins

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Species

Question 6

a large category of classification. Animal, plant and fungus are examples

Accepted Answer

Kingdom

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Genus

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Family

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Phylum

Question 7

a category of classification below a class

Accepted Answer

Order

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Kingdon

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Phylum

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Class

Question 8

a category of classification below a kingdom

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Phylum

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Genus

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Class

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Order

Question 9

a specific group of plants or animals that have some things in common

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Species

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Order

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Family

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Order

Question 10

the system of classifying living things into categories

Accepted Answer

Taxonomy

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Species

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Orginize

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Kingdom

Question 11

Taxonomy is?

Accepted Answer

the science of classifying and naming living things

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one of the three domains of life

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organisms with spinal cords in their backs

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one of the six kingdoms of life

Question 12

True or False: An organism's scientific name tells you the family in which the organism belongs.

A

Accepted Answer

False

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True

Question 13

Organisms are classified based on ________.

Accepted Answer

similarities and evolutionary relationships

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the number of them that exists in a species

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their Greek names

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the year their fossils are discovered

Question 14

An organism's scientific name identifies the ________ and the ________ in which the organism belongs.

Accepted Answer

genus, species

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order, genus

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family, species

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class, order

Question 15

Which of the following lists the eight levels of classification in the correct order?

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domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species

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domain, kingdom, class, phylum, family, order, genus, species

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kingdom, domain, phylum, order, class, family, genus, species

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kingdom, domain, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species

Question 16

Humans are in the domain____?

Accepted Answer

Eukarya

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Mammailia

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Hominidae

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Animalia

Question 17

What characteristics do all organisms in the phylum Chordata have?

Accepted Answer

They have spinal cords.

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They grow in cocoons.

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They feed milk to their young.

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They lay eggs.

Question 18

What do sapiens mean in Latin?

Accepted Answer

wise

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ape

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upright

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brain

Question 19

Who was Lucy, the Australopithecus afarensis?

Accepted Answer

An extinct hominid who lived about 3 million years ago.

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A scientists who came up with the system of classification.

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A paleoanthropologist who discovered an extinct hominid.

Question 20

Animalia is one of ___ kingdoms of life.

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six

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eight

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30

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one million

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