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Classification

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who created the most commonly used system of taxonomy?

a)

Niels Bohr

b)

Watson and Crick

c)

Charles Darwin

d)

Carl Linnaeus

2.

Which is the correct order?

a)

Kingdom Phylum Order Class

b)

Class Order Family Genus

c)

Domain Phylum Kingdom Species

d)

Order Family Species Genus

3.

You find a species that seems to be unicellular and is eating smaller cells around it. It has organelles and a nucleus. Which kingdom is it MOST likely a part of?

a)

Fungi

b)

Bacteria

c)

Protists

d)

Plants

4.

Which of the following is NOT a unicellular kingdom?

a)

Prokaryotes

b)

Protists

c)

Archaea

d)

Fungi

5.

Which one is NOT a difference between plants and fungi?

a)

Plants use cellulose but fungi use chitin

b)

Plants are autotrophs but fungi are heterotrophs

c)

Plants have cell walls but fungi don't

d)

Plants make their own food and fungi decompose their food

6.

You identify a small living organism that is eating something at your feet. It's visible but pretty tiny, you take it to a lab and find that it has cell walls made of chitin. Which is its domain and kingdom?

a)

Prokaryote, Fungi

b)

Eukaryote, Fungi

c)

Prokaryote, Plant

d)

Eukaryote, Plant

7.

Which is NOT a eukaryote?

a)

Plants

b)

Animals

c)

Archaea

d)

Protists

8.

How are mammals different from all the other classes of vertebrates?

a)

They don't have keratin

b)

They don't have a backbone

c)

They don't lay eggs (except two)

d)

They aren't animals

9.

Which best explains why a sponge is an animal?

a)
b)

All animals breath and sponges breath

c)

Animals live underwater and so do sponges

d)

Animals are multicellular heterotrophs and so are sponges

10.

two part scientific name

a)

binomial nomenclature

b)

dichotomous key

c)

classification

d)

evolutionary relationships

11.

1st part of scientific name, capitalized

a)

genus

b)

species

c)

kingdom

d)

phylum

12.

group or level of organization used in classification

a)

taxon

b)

dichotomous key

c)

binomial nomenclature

13.

What is the species name of the animal Pan troglodyte.

a)

troglodyte

b)

Pan

c)

chimp

d)

Animalia

14.

scientist who's classification system we still use today

a)

Carl Linnaeus

b)

Aristotle

c)

John Ray

d)

Charles Darwin

15.

the largest taxonomic group

a)

domain

b)

phylum

c)

kingdom

d)

species