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Classification of Living Things Video Questions
1. What is the standard rule of classification?
Sorting things into groups by how they’re alike and different
2. According to King Philip, what is the classification system?
Way of arranging things that go together
3. What are the 3 domains?
Archaea, bacteria, eukarya
4. How many levels are in the classification system? 8
5. Name the largest group that living things can be classified into. domain
6. Name the 8 levels of classification from largest to smallest?
Domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species
7. List any 4 things you know just from looking at how the common housecat is classified.
Domain – cells have a nucleus
Order – eats meat
Kingdom – animal, moves, eats food, many cells
Family - cat
Phylum – backbone
Genus – doesn’t roar
Class – fur, makes milk
Species – not wild (domesticated)
8. What does the classification system help scientists do?
Easier to find and share information
9. Who developed the naming system that calls a puma, cougar, and mountain lion a Felis concolor?
Carolus Linnaeus
10. What 2 names or levels of classification are in the binominal naming system?
Genus species
11. What sentences does the video use to help you remember the 8 levels of classification in order?
Dear King Phillip Came Over For Good Spaghetti
12. What are the 4 kingdom the video talks about in the Eukarya domain?
Animal, Plant, Fungi, Protist
13. What 3 characteristics do scientists use to put things into the kingdoms? (hint: look at the top of each
column in the chart)
food, movement, number of cells
14. Circle the 2 things that protists have.
a. one cell / many cells;
15. Circle the three things that fungi have. a. one cell / many cells;
c. makes own food / eats food / absorbs food
b. no nucleus / nucleus
b. can’t move / can move;
a. one cell / many cells;
16. Circle the 3 things plants have.
b. can’t move / can move;
c. makes own food / eats food / absorbs food
a. one cell / many cells;
17. Circle the 3 things animals have.
b. can’t move / can move;
c. makes own food / eats food / absorbs food
a. one cell / many cells;
18. Circle the 3 things bacteria have.
b. cell wall / no cell wall;
c. nucleus / no nucleus
19. What domain are the recently discovered single celled organisms classified into?
Archaea
nucleus
20. What do protists have that bacteria don’t have?
21. Give an example of a protist.
amoeba, algae
22. Give an example of a fungus.
mushroom, mold, yeast, mildew
23. Fill in the blanks on the diagram for the Plant Kingdom.
Plant Kingdom
___nonvascular____________
_____vascular________________
__________no seeds______
_____seeds______________
________no flower_________
___flower________
24. The animal kingdom has ____16____ phyla or groups.
25. Fill in the blanks on the diagram for the Animal Kingdom.
Animal Kingdom
____vertebrates__________
26. What invertebrate group is the largest?
___invertebrates_________
insects
27. What do the Cnidarians have to protect them from predators?
stinging cells
28. What are the 5 major classes in the phylum Chordata?
fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals
29. What is the only mammal that can fly?
bat
30. Why does the classification system change?
to reflect new discoveries