Classification
Booklet
Billy POPARISUT
This booklet is about classifying biology
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Classification – Introduction
HOMEWORK: KINGDOMS OF CLASSIFICATION
Classification – Introduction
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Know how things can be classified
Understand the reasons why we classify things
Classifying lab equipment
Place the items in the appropriate category (items can be used twice):
Lab coat, beaker, thermometer, scale, gauze mat, conical flask, Bunsen burner, gloves, test tube rack, retort
stand, test tube, tongs, measuring cylinder, stopwatch, tripod, safety glasses, newton meter
Protective
Lab Coat
Gloves
Safety glasses
Glassware
Beaker
Conical flask
Measuring
cylinder
Measuring
Thermometer
Scale
Newton meter
Measuring
cylinder
Heating
Gauze Mat
Bunsen Burner
Holding
Test tube
Test tube rack
Tripod
Retort stand
tongs
1. How are things classified? By their unique features
2. Why do we classify living things? Because there are many differences in things
Plant or Animal Connect Four
1. What characteristics do plants and animals have in common? They are both living
2. What characteristics are unique to plants? They produce oxygen
3. What characteristics are unique to animals? They have blood
4. Can you name any living organisms that are neither plants nor animals? There are the
molluscs and bacteria
Classifying students
Classify 5 of your classmates according to their physical characteristics.
Brandon
Jacob
Billy
Aaron
Eye color
Hair color
Gender
Height
Skin color
Blue
Blue
Brown
Brown
black
blonde
black
brown
male
male
male
male
Shorter
Taller
Medium
Medium
pale
pale
tanned
Pale
5. Complete ‘Classification’ booklet title page including student name and images.
HOMEWORK: KINGDOMS OF CLASSIFICATION
Read Science Quest page 60-62
1. Name the person who is recognized as having developed the naming system for all
living things. The Swedish naturalist Carolus Linnaeus (1707–1778)
2. How are living organisms grouped?
If things have similar or unique features they are grouped together
3. Use a flow chart to show the names of the 7 groupings in the hierarchical
classification system, from largest to smallest.
4. Identify which group contains members that have the most in common in each of the
following pairs.
a. Kingdom or species the kangaroos
b. Genus or family kangaroo and wallaby
c. Order or phylum kangaroo and wallaby
d. Class or order the kangaroos
5. List the five kingdoms of living things.
Research
6. Describe some features of each of the five Kingdoms and provide an example of an
organism that belongs to each kingdom.
Animalia Living breathing and big
Snow leopard
animals
Prokaryotae, 1cell no nucleus
Bacteria
King
Phillip
Came
Over
For
Good
Spaghetti
Protoctista 1 cell have a nucleus
Algae
Fungi Can’t move, some are edible
Mushroom
Plantae Same as fungi but all edible
Sunflower
1. Choose an animal and state the name of the 7 ranks listed in question 3 to which the
animal belongs. (an example is provided)
Common Name:
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Class:
Order:
Family:
Genus:
Species:
Cheetah
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Felidae
Acinonyx
Jubatus
Olive-ridley turtle
Animalia
Vertebrata
Reptilia
Testudines
Cheloniidae Genus
Lepidochelys
Olivacea
Living or non-living?
Identify if something is living or non-living
Know the characteristics of life
All living things can…
Place the following characteristics of living things in the appropriate place: sensitivity,
movement, growth, nutrition, respiration, excretion, reproduction
Characteristic
Description
Movement
All organisms can move. Animals can swim, fly, walk, or run.
Plants grow towards or away from light, water, or gravity
Reproduce
All organisms can make more of their own kind. Humans can
have babies, plants produce seeds.
Sensitivity
All organisms can detect their environment. We can see, hear,
smell, taste, and touch. Plants can detect light, water, or
gravity.
Grow
All organisms can get bigger. “From little acorns great Oak
tress grow”
Respiration
All organisms need oxygen to release energy from food by
respiration.
Excretion
All organisms produce waste. Humans produce carbon dioxide
and urine. Plants produce oxygen
Nutrition
All organisms need food. Animals need to eat food. Plants can
make their own by photosynthesis.
What is the name that will help you remember the characteristics of life? And what
characteristic does each letter represent?
Movement
Reproduction
Sensitivity
Growth
Respiration
Excretion
Nutrition
What is the mnemonic that will help you remember the order of classification of living things
and what does each letter stand for?
King
Phillip
Came
Over
For
Good
Spaghetti
Is it alive? Science Quest 7 pages 103-105
Living, non-living or dead
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Complete the table below.
Robo-Billy
Characteristics
(electronic toy)
Billy
Billy fossil
Is able to move
Yes
Yes
No
Requires oxygen
No
Yes
No
Requires water
No
Yes
No
Requires nutrition
No
Yes
No
Responds to changes in its
No
yes
No
environment
Produces waste and excretes
No
Yes
No
Grows as it gets older
No
Yes
No
Reproduces itself
No
yes
No
it
1.
Which of the three bilbies is non-living? Which characteristics does it have?
Toy is non-living
3. Which of the three bilbies is dead? Which characteristics does it have?
Fossil Billy
4. Which characteristics does the living bilby have?
Everything it needs to be living
Complete the table below.
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Characteristics
Paper
Fire
Tree
Is able to move
No
Yes
No
Requires oxygen
No
Yes
Yes
Requires water
No
No
Yes
Requires nutrition
No
Yes
Yes
Responds to changes in its
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Grows as it gets older
No
Yes
Yes
Reproduces itself
No
Yes
Yes
environment
Produces waste and excretes
it
5. Which of the following are non-living: paper, fire or tree?
Paper is non-living
6. Does the living thing have all of the characteristics listed?
No
6.
Which characteristics does the living thing have that the non-living thing does not?
A living thing breaths, needs water and nutrition