Classification

Question 1

What is a species?

Answer 1

A single type of organism that can breed and reproduce fertile offspring

Question 2

What is fertile offspring

Answer 2

Babies that can reproduce again.

Question 3

How do you decide if different looking animals are from the same species or not?

Answer 3

If different looking animals are from the same species, their babies will be fertile offspring if they are not from different species, their babies will not be fertile offspring. For example, if a donkey mates with a horse, they produce a mule, but mules can’t have babies. So this means horses and mules aren’t from the same species.

Question 4

What is a producer?

Answer 4

Organisms (plants/algae) that produce their own food from photosynthesis.

Question 5

What is a consumer?

Answer 5

An organism that eats another organism for food.

Question 6

What is a predator?

Answer 6

An organism that preys on other organisms.

Question 7

What is prey?

Answer 7

An organism that is predated by another organism

Question 8

Whta is a herbivore?

Answer 8

Consumes plants only

Question 9

What is a carnivore?

Answer 9

Consumes meat only

Question 10

What is an omnivore?

Answer 10

Consumes plants and meat

Question 11

What does food chains tell us?

Answer 11

Food chains tell us how energy is transferred from one organism to another. This is because our body stores energy in the chemical store.

Question 12

What happens to prey species when predators increase?

Answer 12

If predator numbers increase, prey species may decrease

Question 13

What happens to prey if predators decrease?

Answer 13

If predators decrease, prey may increase.

Question 14

What are the 5 kingdoms?

Answer 14

1) Animalia
2)Plantae
3)Fungi
4) Protista
5) Bacteria

Question 15

What are the 5 types of vertebrates?

Answer 15

Fish
Amphibians
Reptiles
Birds
Mammals

Question 16

Name an animal from each vertebrate group

Answer 16

Fish: Salmon
Amphibians: Frog
Reptiles: Lizard
Birds: Eagle
Mammals: Elephant

Question 17

Name 4 invertebrate groups

Answer 17

Cnidarians
Annelids
Mollusks
Arthropods

Question 18

What is arthropod?

Answer 18

Largest phylum in the animal kingdom

Question 19

3 names of arthropod groups?

Answer 19

Insects
Arachnids
Crustaceans

Question 20

Names and features of 4 main plant groups

Answer 20

Flowering plant:produce flowers and seeds,monocots: seeds with one leaf-thiner leaves, dicots:seed with two leaves-thicker leaves.
Non-flowering plant: produce seeds in cones,pine trees
Ferns: produce spores not seeds
Mosses:small,produce spores

Question 21

Human are putting species in danger of becoming extinct by…

Answer 21

-Excessive deforestation
-Over hunting
-Over fishing

Question 22

Interdependance?

Answer 22

When organisms depend on each other

Question 23

Biotic factors?

Answer 23

Living things

Question 24

Abiotic factors?

Answer 24

Non-living things

Question 25

Community?

Answer 25

All living organisms

Question 26

Ecosystem?

Answer 26

All of the living organisms and their surroundings

Question 27

Population?

Answer 27

All of the geese

Question 28

Individual organism?

Answer 28

A deer

Question 29

What are the binomial system rules?

Answer 29

1) If printed, always in italics 2) If handwritten, always underline 3) First letter of first word is always in UPERRCASE 3) Everything else is lower case

Question 30

What is biodiversity?

Answer 30

The range of different plant and animal species living in an ecosystem.

Question 31

Levels of classification

Answer 31

Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Group Species