Classifying Plants and Animals Vocab

containing plant tissue through which water moves up and food moves down

• species

• vascular

• nonvascular

• kingdom

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

a group of similar organisms that reproduce more of their own kind

• kingdom

• phylum

• species

• scientific name

any living thing that can carry out its life on its own

• scientific name

• nonvascular

• species

• organism

the name for every living thing that combines the genus and species

• scientific name

• vascular

• kingdom

• phylum

a main group within a kingdom, whose members share a main characteristic

• organism

• species

• phylum

• kingdom

a division of plants without vascular tissue

• nonvascular

• vascular

• organism

• phylum

the largest and most general classification of living things

• species

• organism

• kingdom

• phylum

Plants, people and other animals are all examples of an ______.

• species

• phylum

• organism

• kingdom

Many of the words used for a ______ are derived from the Latin language.

• phylum

• scientific name

• nonvascular

• species

Lizards, snakes, and turtles are all ______ of reptiles.

• kingdom

• phylum

• species

• vascular