Classification review

Taxonomy is ______________.

• one of the three domains of life

• the science of classifying and naming living things

• organisms with spinal cords in their backs

• one of the six kingdoms of life

Organisms are classified based on __________.

• the number of them that exists in a species

• their Greek names

• similarities and evolutionary relationships

• the year their fossils are discovered

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-3

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

• True

• False

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, class, phylum, family, order, genus, species

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

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

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

Humans are in the domain __________.

• Mammalia

• Hominidae

• Animalia

• Eukarya

What characteristic do all organisms in the phylum Chordata share?

• They grow in cocoons.

• They have spinal cords.

• They feed milk to their young.

• They lay eggs.

What does sapiens mean in Latin?

• wise

• ape

• upright

• brain

Animalia is one of the __________ kingdoms of life.

• eight

• 30

• one million

• six

Who created binomial nomenclature?

• Galileo Galilee

• Thomas Eddison

• Carolus Linnaeus

• Issac Newton