5th Grade Chapter 3 - Classifying Organisms

The most similar members of a genus belong to which level?

• Class

• Species

• Phylym

• Kingdom

Which statement is true about all Protists and Archaea?

• They live together in colonies

• They live inside other organisms

• They are neither plant or animal

• They are neither single celled nor multi-celled

How are plants similar to animals?

• Plants and animals are multicellular organisms

• plants and animals contain chlorophyll

• Plants and animals make their own sugar for food

• Plants and animals reproduce using cones or spore

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How would scientists classify a vascular plant with no seeds?

• Fern

• Moss

• Conifer

• Flowering plant

Look carefully at the illustration to the left. How is this animal best classified?

• Worm

• Arthropod

• Mollusk

• Vertebrate

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What does a vertebrate have that an invertebrate does not have?

• Gills

• A Brain

• Lungs

• A backbone

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What makes mammals different from all other vertebrates?

• They give milk to their young

• They live on land

• They are warm-blooded

• They use lungs to breath

Which statement best describes conifers?

• Conifers do not have leaves.

• Conifers are protists.

• Conifers are nonvascular plants.

• Conifers reproduce using cones and seeds.

A tool used to identify an organism

• Dichotomous Key

• Kingdom

• Phylum

Animal with a backbone

• Vertebrate

• Invertebrate