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Diversity of Life part 1

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Define Biology

a)

Study of the Earth

b)

Study of the Ocean

c)

Study of Living Things

d)

Having Life

2.

Define Biotic

a)

Study of Living Things

b)

Having Life

c)

Nonliving

d)

Once Alive, but now nonliving

3.

Define Abiotic

a)

Having Life

b)

Not Having Life

c)

The Study of Living Things

d)

Once Alive, but now nonliving

4.

Which of the following is not a characteristic of living things

a)

Metabolism

b)

Eliminate Waste

c)

Reproduce

d)

Warm Blooded

5.

Which of the following is not a kingdom of life?

a)

Animal

b)

Plant

c)

Algae

d)

Fungi

e)

Bacteria

6.

Define Taxonomy

a)

Stuffing dead animals

b)

The branch of science that identifies and classifies animals

c)

Groupings based on shared traits

d)

A variety of different things

7.

Define Classification

a)

A variety of different things

b)

A branch of science that identifies organisms

c)

Groupings based on shared traits

d)

A tool scientists use to identify living and nonliving things

8.

Define Dead

a)

Once Alive, Now Non-Living

b)

Having Life

c)

Not Having Life

d)

Not having all the characteristics of living things

9.

Which of the following is the correct hierarchy of living things?

a)

Kingdom, Phylum, Order, Class, Genus, Species

b)

Kingdom, Class, Family, Phylum, Order, Genus, Species

c)

Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species

d)

Kingdom, Order, Phylum, Genus, Class, Species

10.

Define Diversity

a)

A variety of different things

b)

Groupings of living things

c)

How items are classified

d)

A tool scientists use to identify objects and living things

11.

What is Dichotomous Key?

a)

A tool scientists use to identify living and

nonliving things

b)

Groupings based on shared traits

c)

A tool scientists use to solve problems and answer questions

d)

A variety of different things

12.

Define Organism

a)

Form of Life

b)

Once Living, Now Non-Living

c)

Branch of Science that Groups Items Based on Characteristics

d)

The Study of Life

13.

Define Bio

a)

Means Two

b)

Means Earth

c)

Means Life

d)

The Study of Living Things

14.

Select the items that living things need to survive

a)

Shelter

b)

Clothes

c)

Food

d)

Water

e)

Gas Exchange

15.

Where would you find Archaebacteria living?

a)

On a tabletop

b)

Inside a volcano

c)

In the gut of an animal

d)

on the skin of an apple

16.

Where would you find Eubacteria living

a)

On the skin of an apple

b)

In a volcano

c)

In the gut of a living organism

d)

On a tabletop

17.

What is the scientific name of an organism?

a)

Domain Kingdom

b)

Order Family

c)

Kingdom Phylum

d)

Genus Species

18.

Define Kingdoms

a)

The big groups living organisms are placed into based on similar traits

b)

The two main cell types

c)

The branch of science that classifies organisms

d)

How we give organisms their scientific names

19.

What is a cell?

a)

Where living things go to die

b)

One of the kingdoms of life

c)

An item all living things need to survive

d)

The basic unit for life

20.

What does it mean to be multicellular?

a)

Having only one cell

b)

Having two or more cells

21.

What does it mean to be unicellular?

a)

Having only one cell

b)

Being made of two or more cells

22.

Define Metabolism

a)

How organisms use energy to grow and sustain life

b)

The production of offspring

c)

A type of cell division

d)

How an organism responds to its environment

23.

For something to be considered alive it must:

a)

Have only one characteristic of life

b)

Have two characteristics of life

c)

Have five characteristics of life

d)

Have all characteristics of life

24.

Which are the characteristics of life

a)

Eliminate waste

b)

Be made of cells

c)

reproduce

d)

Respond and Adapt to the environment

e)

Metabolism

25.

Which of the following are the kingdoms of life?

a)

Animals, Plants, Protists, Fungi, Bacteria

b)

Animals, Plants, Protozoa, Mushrooms, Eukaryotes

c)

Animals, Plants, Chordates, Primates, Species

d)

Prokaryotes, Eukaryotes, Archaebacteria, Eubacteria