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Biodiversity: Classification

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How do you define 'biodiversity'?

a)

Biology

b)

Living Organisms

c)

Variety of living organism

d)

Interaction between living and non-living organism

2.

Biodiversity is valuable to humans in that

a)

people buy and sell living things in the pet trade and for esthetic reasons.

b)

living things depend on people for food, clothing, energy, medicine, and shelter.

c)

people depend on other living things for food, clothing, energy, medicine, and shelter.

d)

we have been taught at the earliest age that diversity is a good word so we use it in all endeavours.

3.

What is taxonomy?

a)

Science of conserving biodiversity.

b)

Science of comparing macro molecules.

c)

Science of naming, describing and classifying organisms

d)

Science of creating new species.

4.

Which statements are true about taxonomic hierarchy

a)

The broadest taxon is phylum

b)

Order is a taxon within a class and it consists of several families

c)

Different organisms within a class are from the same family

d)

Different organisms within an order may belong to different classes

5.

Choose the correct order

a)

Genus > Species > Order > Class > Family > Phylum > Kingdom > Domain

b)

Kingdom > Domain > Phylum > Class > Order > Family > Genus > Species

c)

Kingdom > Domain > Phylum > Class > Order > Family > Species > Genus

d)

Domain > Kingdom > Phylum > Class > Order > Family > Genus > Species

6.

Species with closely related in the family are placed in the same ____________.

a)

Genus

b)

Family

c)

Species

d)

Order

7.

What scientist gave us the system of classification we still use today?

a)

Mendel

b)

Linnaeus

c)

Darwin

d)

Watson

8.

The three domains are:

a)

Plant, Animal, Bacteria

b)

Bacteria, Archaea, Eukarya

c)

Invertebrates, Vertebrates, Plants

d)

Fungi, Animal, Plant

9.

Term given to describe the 2 name naming system is:

a)

Dichotomous Key

b)

Binomial nomenclature

c)

binomial key

d)

2 scientific names

10.

Nomenclature is a method used to…

a)

Give scientific name to organisms

b)

Identify homologous structures

c)

Give in situ protection for organisms

d)

Promote speciation process