Biodiversity Quiz

Match the following terms!

• invasive species
• the variety of living things that live together in
• autotrophs

• living things that make their own food through a photosynthesis

• decomposers

• animals with backbones.

• ecosystem

• organisms that break down dead plants and animals

• vertebrates

• a foreign species that disrupts balance

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The word classification means .

• The sorting out of likenesses

• The difference between high status and low status

• The variety of all living things on earth

Answer explanation

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Which scientist first came up with an orderly way to classify living things?

• Plato

• Socrates

• Aristotle

• Carl Linnaeus

Label the following five kingdoms!

a

b

c

d

e

Fungi

Bacteria

Animal

Plants

Protists

Answer explanation

They have been classified into nine major phyla—eight phyla being invertebrates (animals without a backbone). The one phylum of vertebrates (animals with a backbone) is further classified into five different classes—mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians.

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What language is used to give scientific names to plants and animals?

• Italian

• English

• Spanish

• Latin

There are ____ kingdoms.

The largest group of living things on Earth is...?

• Plants

• Animals

• Bacteria

• Protists

Monerans are ______ celled organisms.

• multi

• dual

• single

Answer explanation

Monera (Monos – single) includes prokaryotes and shows the following characters: They are typically unicellular organisms (but one group is mycelial).

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Plants are different from animals because they...?

• Are not living while animals are living

• Are all green while animals are various different colours

• Are able to make their own food while animals must hunt for their food

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Mushrooms, yeast, toadstools and moulds are all examples of organisms in the ____ kingdom.

• Fungi

• Protist

• Moneran

• Animal