Classifying Life

1. Organizing rocks according to their similarities is an example of the process of ______________   

•  Taxonomy
• Sorting
• Classification
• Grouping

2. What is the scientific study of how organisms are classified and named called?    

• Classification
• Taxologist
• Taxology
• Taxonomy

3. Which word in an organism’s complete scientific name is capitalized?    

• Second
• First
• Both
• Neither

4. What is the broadest, least specific level in the levels of classification called?  

• Class
• Species
• Kingdom 
• Domain

5. To identify an unfamiliar organism,you could use a field guide or a ______________? 

• Taxonomic key
• Key 
• Dictionary
• Scientist

6. What is the smallest group in Linnaeus’s classification system? 

•  Genus
• Species
•   Domain
• Kingdom

7. The number of organisms in each group __________ as you move down the levels of classification. 

• Stays the Same
•  Increases
• Decrease

8. Organisms in the same family are _______ closely related than organisms in the same order.   

• Less
• More
• Never
• Always

9. Linnaeus classified organisms according to ____________ in observable features.   

• Similarities
• Differences
• Age
• Height

10. Can a Felis concolor mate with a Felis domesticus? 

• Yes 
• No 
• Maybe