Variety of life, Adaption and Competition

Question 0

What do we call a logical way of putting organisms into groups

Answer 0

Classification

Question 1

How are animal and plants grouped

Answer 1

Morphological (physical features)

Physiological features (how their body functions)

Question 2

Who discovered classification

Answer 2

Carolus Linnaeus

Question 3

What language is usually a new scientific name given

Answer 3

Latin (or Classical Greek)

Question 4

What are the five kindoms

Answer 4

Animals
Plants
Fungi
Protoctista (Algae and single cells organisms)
Bacteria

Question 5

In hierarchy to grouping what are the levels called

Answer 5

Taxa

Question 6

When classified into groups called taxa what is the order

Answer 6

Kingdom
Phylum
Class 
Order
Family
Genus
Species

Question 7

What group can breed and produce fertile offspring

Answer 7

Species

Question 8

What do we call the un-scientific name which is different in every language

Answer 8

The common name

Question 9

Who organised the binomial naming system

Answer 9

The international committee

Question 10

In modern day what is the international committee called

Answer 10

International committee for zoological nomenclature (ICZN)

Question 11

What are the three domains

Answer 11

Bacteria
Eukaryotes
Archae

Question 12

What is adaptations

Answer 12

Special features or behaviour which makes an organism well suited to its environment

Question 13

What do adaptations do

Answer 13

Increase an organisms chance of survival; they are biological solutions to an environmental challenge

Question 14

Give some adaptations for animals living in a cold environment

Answer 14

Thick coat - insulation
White coat - camouflage against ice and snow
Small ears - reduce heat loss
Large body - reduce heat loss
Large and rough feet - helps movement
Mammals and birds fluff up fur or feathers - traps layer of air (insulator)
Active during day (when it’s warmest)

Question 15

Give some adaptations for plants

Answer 15

Plants that live in cold climates have difficulty extracting water from the soil (frozen) they lose water throw their leaves so as a result have small leaves (conifers, pine, fur). Some plants like holly have a thick waxy layer to stop water loss, others have thick succulent stems to store water

Question 16

Give some adaptations for life in water

Answer 16

Animals are streamlined
Animals have fins or webbed feet
Animals have gills instead of lungs

Question 17

Give some adaptations for flying animals

Answer 17

Wings
Light body or hollow bones
Be able to form a streamlined shape

Question 18

Give some adaptations to protect organisms form predators

Answer 18

Camouflage
Covered with spines/produce bad smells
Colourful markings (warning colours)
Developed poisons
Powerful legs or wings to escape 
Plants have thorns (roses and cacti) to prevent animals eating them

Question 19

What are plats grouped into

Answer 19

Flowering and non-flowering types

Question 20

What are animals grouped into

Answer 20

Vertebrates (with backbone) and invertebrates (invertebrates are not strictly a classification because they share an absence of a feature)

Question 21

What are microorganisms grouped into

Answer 21

Bacteria
Fungi
Algae

Question 22

What is predation

Answer 22

Being eaten by other animals in the environment