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Unit 1: Classification Practice Quizizz

Total questions: 32

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who created the EARLIEST classification system?

a)

Carolus Linneaus

b)

Aristotle

c)

Charles Darwin

d)

Albert Einstin

2.

Who created the modern classification system

a)

Carolus Linneus

b)

Aristotle

c)

Charles Darwin

d)

Albert Einstein

3.

What language are scientific names written in?

a)

Spanish

b)

English

c)

French

d)

Latin

4.

What two groups did Aristotle divide life into?

a)

Plants and animals

b)

Land, air, and sea

c)

Bacteria and Eukarya

d)

Plants and mushrooms

5.

What is the name of Linnaeus's classification system?

a)

Fist name, second name

b)

Binomial Nomenclature

c)

Nombre de clasificación

d)

Domains of life

6.

In the horse's scientific name, Equus caballus, the word caballus designates the ____________

a)

Domain

b)

Genus

c)

Phylum

d)

Species

7.

What is a coyote's scientific name?

a)

Mammalia Carnivora

b)

Proteles cristatus

c)

Panthera Leo

d)

Canis latrans

8.

How many scientific levels do all 5 organisms share in this chart?

a)

2

b)

3

c)

4

d)

5

9.

What two organisms are the most "closely related?

a)

Gray Wolf and Lion

b)

Blue Whale and Aardwolf

c)

Gray Wolf and Coyote

d)

Lion and Coyote

10.

Which organism is the most distantly related to the others?

a)

Blue Whale

b)

Aardwolf

c)

Coyote

d)

Lion

11.

How many Domains of Life are there

a)

1

b)

3

c)

6

d)

8

12.

Fill in the blank: Domains are the ___________________ level of Classification

a)

Smallest

b)

Specific

c)

Shortest

d)

Largest

13.

Which Domain includes the 4 Kingdoms: Animalia, Protista, Plantae, Fungi?

a)

Archaea

b)

Eukarya

c)

Bacteria

d)

Broadest

14.

Besides not having a nucleus and being single celled, what characteristic of Archaea makes them different from Bacteria?

a)

Ability to live in an extreme environment

b)

Are multicellular

c)

Live in an around us

d)

Has 4 kingdoms

15.

Which two Domains include(s) only prokaryotes (no nucleus in their cells)?

a)

Bacteria and Eukarya

b)

Bacteria and Archaea

c)

Archaea and Eukarya

d)

Animal and Plant

16.

How many Kingdoms are there?

a)

4

b)

6

c)

8

d)

10

17.

How many kingdoms fall under the Eukarya Domain?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

4

d)

6

18.

Which Kingdom includes organisms that are multicellular, autotrophs that do not move?

a)

Bacteria

b)

Plantae

c)

Animalia

d)

Protista

19.

Which Kingdom includes organisms that are multicellular, heterotrophs that can move?

a)

Bacteria

b)

Plantae

c)

Animalia

d)

Protista

20.

What does Kingdom Fungi have in common with Kingdom Animal?

a)

They are heterotrophs

b)

They are autotrophs

c)

They have cell walls

d)

They use spore to reproduce

21.

The science of classifying living things is called

a)

Biology

b)

Taxidermy

c)

Ecology

d)

Taxonomy

22.

The first word in an organisms scientific name is its _______________

a)

Species

b)

Phylum

c)

Domain

d)

Genus

23.

What is an organism called when it can make its on food? Ex. plants

a)

Autotrophs

b)

Prokaryotrophs

c)

Heterotrophs

d)

Hungrytrophs

24.

What is an organism that must absorb or ingest food for energy?

a)

Autotrophs

b)

Prokaryotrophs

c)

Heterotrophs

d)

Hungrytrophs

25.

The ___________ Kingdom is the only kingdom of eukaryotes that contain both autotrophs and heterotrophs and both unicellular and multicellular organisms. Hint: Algae you can find in a pond!

a)

Fungi

b)

Protist

c)

Archeabacteria

d)

Plantae

26.

Why do scientists organize living things into groups?

a)

So they can find them more easily

b)

So they can make sense of the variety of rocks on earth

c)

So products from living things can be easily found in groceries

d)

So organisms are easier to study

27.

An organism's scientific name consists of

a)

its class name and its family name

b)

its phylum name and its species name

c)

its kingdom name and its phylum name

d)

Its genus name and its species name

28.

Classification is

a)

a book with illustrations that highlight differences between living things

b)

a process for determining the evolutionary history of an animal

c)

the process of grouping things based on their similarities

d)

a process for determining the number of characteristics that two organisms share

29.

Animals without a backbone are considered

a)

Vertebrates

b)

Porifora

c)

Echinoderms

d)

Invetebrates

30.

Animals with backbones

a)

Vertebrates

b)

Porifora

c)

Echinoderms

d)

Invetebrates

31.

Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus,

Species

If two organisms share the same order, what other levels do they also share?

a)

Class, order, family, genus, species

b)

Family, Genus and Species

c)

Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class

d)

Class, Order and Family

32.

A gray wolf (Canis Lupus) and a dog (Canis familiaris) belong to the same

a)

Species

b)

Genus

c)

Species and Genus

d)

Family and Species