Taxonomy

Why, as we move down the classification chart, are there fewer and fewer organisms?

• At the higher levels of classification, organisms are more closely related

• At the lover levels of classification, the organisms are more closely related and therefor there are fewer organisms in that group.

• Higher levels of classification has smaller organisms

• Lower level of classification has organisms that are more complex.

Answer explanation

The top of the chart is wide and broad and includes many organisms, then as you move down the categories get more and more specific so the classification narrows until you have only 1 organism.

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Kim developed a classification system to sort animals. Which statement best describes how she sorted her animals?

• She sorted them based on their color

• She sorted them based on their size

• She sorted them based on their behaviors ( how the act)

• She sorted them based on their structural features

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Plants and fungi both grow in the ground, yet the are different in many ways. What are some main differences between the two kingdoms?

• Plants are multi cellular, fungi are not.

• Plants can't make their own food.

• Fungi can move freely

• Plants make their own food, but fungi don't.

Answer explanation

Plants are AUTOTROPHS, but Fungi are HETEROTROPHS who must consume food to survive..

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

A long time ago, scientists used to classify plants and fungi in the same kingdom. What do you you think occurred that prompted scientist to give them their own kingdoms?

• New evidence supported that they were not as related as previously thought and they were reclassified.

• The plant kingdom was too large so scientists decided to break them up into smaller groups.

• Advancements in technology supported that plants and fungi are very closely related.

• Plants and fungi are still classified in the same kingdoms to this day, because they are so closely related.

Answer explanation

New evidence supported that even though plants and fungi they may look similar, they are very different.

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

I am and AMOEBA. I move freely and I have to eat to survive, but I do not fit in the animal kingdom because I am unicellular. Where would you classify me?

• Kingdom FUNGI

• Kingdom PLANTAE

• Kingdom PROTISTA

• Kingdom HOMOSAPIEN

Answer explanation

Protists are often seen as animal like plants or plant like animals, but because the are single celled, they don't fit into those kingdoms.

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NGSS.MS-LS1-1

Dr. McDonald walks out into the courtyard and sees a multicellular organism that can move about freely, and is clearly heterotrophic as it is moving towards the cafeteria to eat lunch. Which kingdom must this organism belong?

• Kingdom Plantae

• Kingdom Animalia

• Kingdom Homospaien

• Kingdom Protista

Answer explanation

A scientists studying the water around a hydrothermal vent located on the ocean floor, discovers a microscopic organism that has never been seen before. Where is she to MOST likely classify this new species?

• Kingdom Animalia

• Kingdom Plantae

• Kingdom Bacteria

• Kingdom Fungi

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NGSS.MS-LS1-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Planet Earth has Millions of Life forms. Scientist work hard to classify them all. Which characteristic below would be the MOST important feature to consider when classify an new lifeform?

• Its size

• Its shape

• How the organism gets it's food or energy to survive

• Where it lives

Answer explanation

remeber our foldable??

we first ask ourselves, is the organism autotrophic or heterotrophic!

then we can look at other features such as size and traits

The science of grouping and naming organisms.

• Classification

• Binomial Nomenclature

• Dichotomous Key

• Taxonomy

Which of the following shows the correct order of the levels of classification from largest to smallest?

• Species - Class- Order - Kingdom - Genus - Family - Phylum

• Species - Genus - Family - Order - Class - Phylum - Kingdom

• Kingdom - Phylum - Class- Order - Family - Genus - Species

• None of the above