Classification of Living Things

What is the name given to scientists who sort and classify living things into groups?

How did you sort the animals this time?

How did you sort the animals this time?

What did Carl Linnaeus create and why?

We sort living things into different groups at different levels. What is the name of the original level of groupings that included ‘animal’ and ‘plant’?

• Class
• Kingdom
• Domain
• Order

For the previous question, you should have one box with two answers. Explain how you would separate those 2 answers.

Write which class each of the following animal belongs to. Explain a feature that puts them in that group. Eg: a whale is a mammal because it breathes with lungs. Shark, Ladybird, Eagle, Axolotyl, Crocodile

What makes the ladybird different to all the other animals in this key?

What class of animal is a fox?

Name the 3 types of microorganisms.