Chapter 2

Question 0

Give an example of an internal structure and an example of an external structure that scientists use to classify organisms

Answer 0

Different functioning cells like blood cells, brain cells, or bone cells

Question 1

Give 2 examples of how people use classification systems to help them organize their knowledge about living things?

Answer 1

Knowing if their a plant or a animal cell and if they have 1 cell or more

Question 2

What are the names for two different groups of organisms?

Answer 2

Unicellular and Multicellular organisms

Question 3

Name the 5 kingdoms of living things

Answer 3

Fungi
Animalia
Plantae
Protista
Monera

Question 4

How are these three spiders the same? List three characteristics to make a classification key

Answer 4

Multicellular
Feed off living things
Invertebrate (no backbone)

Question 5

Explain how bindweed and bracket fungi are same and different

Answer 5

The same as in multicellular
Bracket fungi is from fungi family
Bindweed is from plantea kingdom
Bindweed make its own food
Fungi feeds off living host

Question 6

What characteristics would you look for in a plant?

Answer 6

Does it have roots, stem, or leaves?
Does it have tube like structures to carry water?
Does it produce flowers or cones?

Question 7

Explain how each seed is dispersed ?

Answer 7

Animal eats the seeds inside and scatters the seeds far away
Have seedcases that split open and release the seeds
Plant has seeds inside the fruit
Plants produce seeds that have wings or parachutes which scatter seeds in the wind