Classification (7th)

Question 1

What is Taxonomy?

Answer 1

Science of grouping and naming organisms. Aristotle, a Greek philosopher, first used taxonomy more than 2000 years ago.

Question 2

What is a Kingdom?

Answer 2

The largest taxonomic category.
Ex: plant and animal kingdoms created by Aristotle. He then further divided the kingdoms according to where the animals lived. His system was criticized and eventually abandoned.

Question 3

What is the current system of scientific classification?

Answer 3

Binomial Nomenclature

Question 4

_______ __________ created B.N. To classify organisms based on a variety of traits.

Answer 4

Carolus Linnaeus

Question 5

What’s a word that means “two names”

Answer 5

Binomial

Question 6

What does binomial mean?

Answer 6

“Two names”

Question 7

The two word scientific name is usually in _____.

Answer 7

Latin

Question 8

The 1st word is

Answer 8

The genus (always capitalized)

Question 9

The 2nd word is

Answer 9

The species (always lowercase)

Question 10

Both words of the two word scientific name is always written

Answer 10

In italics or underlined

Question 11

What is the smallest category of classification?

Answer 11

A species

Question 12

What is the second smallest category? A group of different species that are similar

Answer 12

Genus

Question 13

There are _____ groups in the present classification system.

Answer 13

Seven

Question 14

What method(s) of nutrition does the kingdom of Monera use?

Answer 14

They absorb food and/or photo synthesize.

Question 15

What method(s) of nutrition does the kingdom of Protista use?

Answer 15

They absorb, ingest, and/or photosynthesize

Question 16

What method(s) of nutrition does the kingdom of Fungi use?

Answer 16

They absorb food

Question 17

What method(s) of nutrition does the kingdom of Plantae use?

Answer 17

They photosynthesize food.

Question 18

What method(s) of nutrition does the kingdom of Animalia use?

Answer 18

They ingest food.

Question 19

What’s the largest taxonomic category?

Answer 19

Kingdom

Question 20

Below the kingdom is

Answer 20

Phylum

Question 21

What is the phylum divided into?

Answer 21

Classes

Question 22

What are the classes divided into?

Answer 22

Order

Question 23

From the order, the organism will be classified into a _______

Answer 23

Family

Question 24

What is Classification?

Answer 24

To group ideas, information, or objects based on similarities.

Question 25

What are the kingdoms of living things in the Linnaean classification system?

Answer 25

Monera
Protista
Fungi
Plantae
Animalia

Question 26

What are the seven groups of the present classification system?

Answer 26

Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order 
Family
Genus 
Species

Question 27

What is the scientific name for a human?

Answer 27

Homo sapiens

Question 28

A growing number of researchers now divide the Monera into two distinct kingdoms called ___________ and ____________

Answer 28

Eubacteria (true bacteria)
and
Archaebacteria (bacteria-like organisms that live in extremely harsh anaerobic environments)

Question 29

What’s an example of an organism in the Monera Kingdom?

Answer 29

Bacteria

Question 30

What’s an example of an organism in the Protista Kingdom?

Answer 30

Algae

Question 31

What’s an example of an organism in the Fungi Kingdom?

Answer 31

Funguses, molds, mushrooms, yeasts, and mildews

Question 32

What’s an example of an organism in the Plantae Kingdom?

Answer 32

Mosses, ferns, flowering plants.

Question 33

What’s an example of an organism in the Animalia Kingdom?

Answer 33

Worms, Insects, Reptiles, and Mammals