7-Science-Ecology-Classification Quiz

Question 1

List the Eukaryotic Kingdoms

Answer 1

Animals
Plants
Fungi
Protists

Question 2

List the Prokaryotic Kingdoms

Answer 2

Bacteria

Archaea

Question 3

List the seven levels of classification (general to specific)

Answer 3

Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species

Question 4

What is the scientific name for a human?

Answer 4

Homo sapiens (underlined or italicized)

Question 5

The scientific name of a common bottle nose dolphin is tursiops truncatus. What is the species? What is the genus?

Answer 5

species- truncatus

genus- tursiops

Question 6

A common bottle nose dolphin is related to a humpback whale down to its order. It is also related to a false killer whale down to family. What is it closer related to?

Answer 6

false killer whale- family is more specific than order.

Question 7

List at least three pieces of evidence that are used to classify organisms.

Answer 7

DNA
Physical traits
Cell structure
Development
Fossils

Question 8

What are the three advantages of scientific names (as opposed to common names)?

Answer 8

Common names vary place to place.
Common names can be vague (iguana- green or desert?)
Common names can be misleading.

Question 9

List characteristics and an example of… jawless fish.

Answer 9

no jaw- ancient trait

sea lampreys

Question 10

… cartilage fish

Answer 10

cartilage skeleton

sharks and rays

Question 11

… bony fish

Answer 11

bony fins
gills
scales
cold-blooded
jelly coated eggs
sea horse and mud skipper

Question 12

… amphibians

Answer 12

cold blooded
moist skin
gills when young, lungs when adult
jelly coated eggs in water
frogs and salamanders

Question 13

… reptiles

Answer 13

cold blooded
lungs
dry scaly skin
leathery hard shelled eggs
gecko/lizard and sea snake

Question 14

… birds

Answer 14

feathers 
lungs
beak
wings
warm blood
hard shelled eggs
kiwi and starling

Question 15

mammals

Answer 15

fur
lungs
live young
milk for young
warm-blooded
platypus, armadillo, and bat