Taxonomy

Taxonomy is ________.

• the science of classifying and naming living things
• one of the three domains of life
• organisms with spinal cords in their backs
• one of the six kingdoms of life

An organism's scientific name tells you the family in which the organism belongs.

• false
• true

Organisms are classified based on ________.

• similarities and evolutionary relationships
• the number of them that exists in a species
• their Greek names
• the year their fossils are discovered

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-3

An organism's scientific name identifies the ________ and the ________ in which the organism belongs.

• genus, species
• order, genus
• family, species
• class, order

Which of the following lists the eight levels of classification in the correct order?

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

Humans are in the domain ________.

• Eukarya
• Animalia
• Mammalia
• Hominidae

What characteristic do all organisms in the phylum Chordata share?

• They have spinal cords.
• They grow in cocoons.
• They feed milk to their young.
• They lay eggs.

What does sapiens mean in Latin?

• wise
• ape
• upright
• brain

Who was Lucy, the Australopithecus afarensis?

• an extinct hominid who lived about 3 million years ago
• a scientist who came up with the system of classification
• a paleoanthropologist who discovered an extinct hominid
• the last known member of the order Primates

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Animalia is one of ________ kingdoms of life.

• six
• eight
• 30
• one million