Living Things and Classification

Which of the following is NOT one of the five kingdoms?

• Plants
• Monerans
• Insectd
• Protists

What is another name for a phylum in the plant kingdom?

• group
• taxomony
• genus
• division 

Which of the following is NOT one of the characteristics of all living things?

• obtaining and using resources for energy
• responding to stimuli
• eating or consuming food
• reproducing

Which kingdom grows on other organisms in order to get food?

• Plants
• Animals
• Fungi

Which of the following means to get larger and more complex?

• growth and development
• responding to a stimulus
• taxonomy
• to produce offspring

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

Organisms are placed into a kingdom based on which of the following?

• the number of cells in their body and their ability to breed
• their ability to make food and the number of cells in their body
• their ability to breed and ability to make food

Which type of reproduction only involves one parent?

• asexual
• sexual 
• autotrophic
• heterotrophic

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-2

Which is the correct order of the levels of classification?

• kingdom, phylum, order, class, family, species, genus
• species, order, phylum, family, class, kingdom, genus
• kingdom, phylum, class, order, family genus, species

Which of the following describes a moneran?

• one celled organism with a nucleus
• one celled organism without a nucleus

What does obtain mean?

• to get or acquire
• to release or let go
• to store or hold onto

Tags

NGSS.3-ESS2-2

NGSS.4-ESS3-1

NGSS.5-ESS3-1