Grade 5 living things - Quick assessment

Who classify living things by comparing them?

• Lawyers

• Taxonomists

• Presidents

• Scientists

Taxonomists group similar things together, then split the groups again and again so they become smaller and smaller.

• True

• False

Carl Linnaeus created the standard system of...

• perspective

• discussion

• observation

• classification

Which edition of Systema Naturae is believed to be the most important one.

• 2nd

• 10th

• 6th

• 8th

Linnaeus' original system of classification classified everything in nature into a hierarchy.

He proposed that there were three large groups, called kingdoms, into which the whole of nature could fit. These kingdoms were

• animals, humans and plants

• fish, amphibia and insects

• plants, animals and minerals

• minerals, metals and mammals

Today, the Linnaean system is only used to classify living things, so it does not include

• minerals

• animals

• plants

• insects

Which level is missing?

• option

• opinion

• order

• other

Phylum chordata includes?

• vertebrates

• invertebrates

• fungi

• bacteria

Vertebrate means animals...

• with backbones

• without backbones

Invertebrate means animals...

• with backbones

• without backbones