Unit 4: Plants & Animals - Animals

What is the hierarchy of animal taxonomy from highest to lowest?

• a. class, order, family, genus, species, kingdom, phylum

• b. kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species

• c. kingdom, phylum, order, class, family, genus, species

• d. phylum, kingdom, class, order, family, genus, species

What is the term used to describe the study of the classification of organisms?

• a. biology

• b. ecology

• c. genetics

• d. taxonomy

What are the animal kingdoms?

• a. archaebacteria, eubacteria, protista, plantae, animalia, fungi

• b. birds, reptiles, mammals, fish, amphibians

• c. insects, crustaceans, arachnids, centipedes

• d. kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species

If two organisms belong to the same order, then they must also belong to the same:

• a. class

• b. family

• c. genus

• d. species

Which phyla has a soft unsegmented body and can be protected by a shell?

• a. annelid

• b. echinoderm

• c. mollusk

• d. porifera

This phylum means spiny skin and lives in water:

• a. annelids

• b. arthropods

• c. cnidarians

• d. echinoderm

This phylum has a medusa and polyp stage, stinging tentacles, and radial symmetry. What phyla is it?

• a. annelids

• b. arthropods

• c. cnidarian

• d. mollusks

Animals that are segmented and have jointed appendages and an exoskeleton are members of the phylum:

• a. annelida

• b. arthropoda

• c. cnidaria

• d. platyhelminthes

Which animal phylum has no specialized tissues (most simple animal)?

• a. annelida

• b. chordata

• c. mollusca

• d. porifera

To which phylum do vertebrates belong?

• a. arthropoda

• b. chordata

• c. cnidaria

• d. echinodermata