Classifying and Exploring Life

True or false

The order in which organisms are classified is Kingdom, Phylum, Order, Class, Genus, Family, and Species.

Which of the following is NOT a method your body uses to regulate homeostasis?

• taking a cool shower

• sweating

• shivering

• change the flow of blood

Growth of many-celled organisms is mostly due to an increase in the _____ of cells.

• size

• protons

• number

• all of the above

Which of the following is more general in terms of classifying an organism?

• Family

• Order

• Species

• Class

Scientific names of organisms consist of ________.

• genus and specific name

• order and family

• family and genus

• class and order

True or false

An organism only grows by increasing its number of cells.

Early microscopes were invented by Anton van Leeuwenhoek and __________.

• Robert Hooke

• Galileo Galilei

• Rudolf Hertz

• Edwin Armstrong

In a ____ electron microscope, electrons actually pass through the object being viewed.

• scanning

• transmission

• compound

• passing

Another term for living things is _________.

The mountain lion gets its energy from ___________.

• ants

• longnose snake

• pronghorn

• desert paintbrush