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Classification Vocabulary

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The placing of things into groups of similar items.

a)

classification

b)

adaptation

c)

kingdom

d)

protist

2.

A feature of an organism that helps it survive in its environment.

a)

bacteria

b)

adaptation

c)

protist

d)

species

3.

What are the two MAIN ways that scientist classify organisms?

a)

cell structures

b)

color

c)

ways of getting food

d)

feet

4.

What are the two levels that give an organisms binomial name (scientific name)?

a)

kingdom

b)

phylum

c)

species

d)

genus

e)

family

5.

A group of organisms that share major characteristics and, therefore, are closely related.

a)

species

b)

adaptation

c)

kingdom

d)

genus

6.

A single kind of organism, defined by the fact that it can reproduce among its own kind.

a)

species

b)

kingdom

c)

genus

d)

organism

7.

What are two names of guides that can help you identify species of living things?

a)

field guide

b)

7 levels of classification

c)

Bloom's Taxonomy

d)

dichotomous key

8.

An organism whose cells have walls but no chloroplasts (instead they feed on decaying tissues of other organisms to get food)

a)

protists

b)

animals

c)

fungi

d)

plants

9.

Microscopic organisms that may have characteristics of plants, animals, or fungi.

a)

fungi

b)

bacteria

c)

Monera bacteria

d)

protists

10.

Living things can be classified into one of _______ kingdoms?

a)

4

b)

5

c)

6

d)

7

11.

In the animal kingdom, which group has most members?

a)

insects

b)

mammals

c)

worms

d)

spiders

12.

The average of all weather conditions in an area over a period of time.

a)

climate

b)

classification

c)

inertia

d)

plate tectonics

13.

The theory that Earth is divided into plates that are always moving.

a)

volume

b)

plate tectonics

c)

kingdom

d)

Pangea

14.

The amount of space something takes up.

a)

mass

b)

density

c)

volume

15.

The tendency of matter to resist a change in its state of motion.

a)

conservation

b)

non-renewable resources

c)

plate tectonics

d)

inertia

16.

The saving of things so they will last as long as possible.

a)

conservation

b)

renewable resources

c)

volume

d)

classification

17.

A region of the world defined by its climate and the plants and animals that live there.

a)

plate tectonics

b)

classification

c)

biome

d)

biotic

18.

It means living

a)

conservation

b)

inertia

c)

biotic

d)

climate

19.

Choose all of the renewable resources.

a)

trees

b)

corn

c)

water

d)

coal

e)

oil

20.

What are three non-renewable resources (fossil fuels)?

a)

coal

b)

water

c)

oil

d)

natural gas

e)

animals