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DAY 1: Introduction to Biodiversity

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 19mins

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.

The science of naming, describing, and classifying organisms and includes all plants, animals and microorganisms of the world is called________

a)

Taxonomy

b)

Classification

c)

Clade

d)

Taxon

3.
Who first proposed binomial nomenclature as a way of classifying organisms?
a)
Carolus Linnaeus
b)
Aristotle
c)
Charles Darwin
d)
Louis Pasteur
4.

Identify this protist:

a)

Amoeba

b)

Euglena

c)

Paramecium

d)

Volvox

5.
What is Cilia?
a)
A tail like structure that help protist move
b)
Hair like fibers that help protist move
c)
A place where spores are kept
d)
A fake foot that help protist move
6.

When an organism makes their own food they are referred to as?

a)

Heterotrophic

b)

Autotrophic

7.
What is Flagella?
a)
A tail like structure that help protist move
b)
Hair like fibers that help protist move
c)
A place where spores are kept
d)
A fake foot that help protist move
8.

Which Kingdom does Bacteria belong to?

a)

Fungi

b)

Animal

c)

Monera

d)

Protista

9.

Fungi are __________.

a)

Eukaryotes

b)

Heterotrophs

c)

Consumers

d)

All of the above

10.

True or false: Fungi are prokaryotic.

a)

True

b)

False

11.

What makes fungi different from plants?

a)

Their chloroplasts are located on the cap rather than the leaves.

b)

Their cell walls are made of chitin rather than cellulose.

c)

Fungi can only live in moist places while plants can live anywhere.

12.

True or False: Not all mushrooms are safe to eat.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

What type of cell is bacteria?

a)

Prokaryotic

b)

Eukaryotic

14.

Which of the following are shapes of bacteria?

a)

Round

b)

Spiral

c)

Rod

d)

Double helix

15.

Which kind of bacteria is pictured?

a)

Round (coccus)

b)

Rod (bacillus)

c)

Spiral

16.

All bacteria are

a)

unicellular

b)

multicellular

c)

eukaryotic

17.
The most general in the order of classification is?
a)
Kingdom 
b)
Phylum 
c)
Class 
d)
Order
18.
Kingdom, Phylum, Class, _______
a)
Family 
b)
Order
c)
Genus 
d)
Species
19.
Bacteria is included in what type of Kingdom?
a)
Animalia Kingdom
b)
Plant Kingdom
c)
Monera Kingdom
d)
Protista Kingdom
20.

Identify this Protist:

a)

Algae

b)

Paramecium

c)

Amoeba

d)

Yeast