Unit 4: Classification of Organisms-Diversity EOCT Study Guide
1. Which two kingdoms in the kingdom system include all the prokaryotes?
a. Fungi
b. Animalia
c. Protista
d. Eubacteria
e. Archeabacteria
2. The scientific name of the live oak tree is Quercus virginiana. In this example,
Quercus is the
a. Order
b. Family
c. Phylum
d. Species
e. Genus
3. Which kingdom or domain or organisms is the most numerous on Earth?
a. Plantae
b. Fungi
c. Archea
d. Bacteria
e. Protista
4. Imagine that a meteorite has fallen to Earth and scientists have found life inside it.
They have extracted an organism that is unicellular, lacks cilia or flagella,
possesses a nucleus, performs photosynthesis, and has cells walls made of silica.
Which of these Earth organisms most closely fits this description?
a. Diatom
b. Dinoflagellate
c. Slime mold
d. Apicomplexan protozoan
e. Spirochete bacterium
5. What adaptation, to cut down on water loss, would you expect to find on a desert
plant, such as a plant?
a. Numerous leaves
b. Thick roots
c. Reduced amounts of lignin
d. Large number of stomata
e. Thick cuticle
6. Jellyfish and coral are both in the phylum
a. Nematoda
b. Annelida
c. Cnidaria
d. Porifera
e. Mollusca
7. Which part of the flower is male and produces pollen?
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Sepals
Petals
Carpels
Anthers
Ovary
8. The following pictures show some stages during asexual reproduction of a hydra.
Which picture shows the first step?
9. Which of these could be successfully treated with antibiotics?
a. HIV
b. Influenza
c. Strep Throat
d. Common cold
10. In plants, gymnosperms have cones and angiosperms have flowers. Both of these
plant structures are specialized for
a. Photosynthesis
b. Food production
c. Sexual reproduction
d. Water absorption
11. A dog is a member of the Kingdom
a. Animalia
b. Eubacteria
c. Protista
d. Archeabacteria
e. Plantea
12. Which of these is a type of prokaryotic cell
a. Worm cell
b. Human cell
c. Bacterial cell
d. Mushroom cell
e. Plant cell
13. The one-celled eukaryotic organisms below are often found in freshwater ponds.
What is one characteristic they all have in common?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Nucleus
Cilia
Pseudopodia
Flagellum
14. Which of the following require a host cell because they are not able to make proteins
on their own.
a. blue-green algae
b. bacteria
c. protozoans
d. viruses
14. Chordates all share these key features in the embryo or in the adult stage except
a. Dorsal nerve cord
b. Notochord
c. Pharyngeal slits
d. Post-anal tail
e. Hard backbone
15. Which mollusk listed below does not have a hard shell?
a. Snail
b. Oyster
c. Squid
d. Octopus
e. Clam
16. Earthworms and Leeches are both examples of
a. Nematode
b. Annelida
c. Mollusca
d. Arthropoda
e. Cnidaria
17. Which of these organisms is not a producer?
a. Phytoplankton
b. Insect
c. Algae
d. Autotrophic bacterium
e. Plant
18. The exoskeleton of an insect provides all the following except
a. Protection from predators
b. Flexibility around the joints
c. The ability to get larger as the body grows
d. Reduction in water loss from the surface of the body
19. Reproduction in a pine tree, and other gymnosperms, involves
a. Sperm that swim through water to insects
b. Sperm that swim through water to the female cone
c. Insects that carry pollen from flower to flower
d. Pollen that blows onto the female cone
e. Sperm the swim through water to fertilize the egg
20. Which of the following best describes nutrition in fungi?
a. Fungi are photosynthetic
b. Fungi are autotrophic, like land plants
c. Fungi absorb food that has been digested by animals
d. Fungi secrete enzymes to digest food outside their body
e. Fungi digest food in their stomach, like humans
21. Which two groups of organisms are the main decomposers in an ecosystem?
a. Fungi and animals
b. Animals and bacteria
c. Land plants and animals
d. Bacteria and fungi
22. Flowering plants can use any of these techniques or structures to attract
pollinators except
a. Special markings on the flower
b. Flower color
c. Fragrance
d. Sound
e. Nectar
23. An animal the crawls forward on the ground would most likely have
a. Radial symmetry, and no brain at all
b. Bilateral symmetry, and a brain at the hind end
c. Radial symmetry, and a brain at the front end
d. Radial symmetry and a brain at the hind end
e. Bilateral symmetry and a brain a the front end
24.
Experimental Observations
1. Nucleus is present.
2. Cell wall is present.
3. Chloroplasts and mitochondria
are both present.
The eukaryotic organism described above should be classified asa. a fungus
b. a plant
c. a bacterium
d. an animal
25. Organisms may be classified as consumers or producers. Which of these is
classified as a producer?
a. An insect
b. A bird
c. A tree
d. A mouse
26. What is the purpose of the flagellum?
a.
b.
c.
d.
circulation
catching prey
movement
attachment
27. Based on the method used by which they get food, organisms are classified as
autotrophs or heterotrophs. Which organism listed below is correctly paired with its
metabolism?
a. Grass-heterotroph
b. Human-heterotroph
c. Mushroom-autotroph
d. Fish-autotroph
28. What structure is common to all 6 kingdoms of living organisms?
a. Cell wall
b. Nucleus
c. DNA
e. Lysosomes
29. Which skull belongs to an herbivore?
30. The colorful petals of a flower benefit the plant by
a. absorbing radiant energy
b. attracting insect pollinators
c. protecting it from predators
d. catching windblown pollen
31. Which kingdom contains organisms that are multicellular, autotrophic eukaryotes?
a. Animalia
b. Plantae
c. Fungi
d. Archeabacteria
32. Which characteristic supports the hypothesis that this organism spends a great deal of
time burrowing through the soil?
a. The shape of its body
b. The position of its nose
c. The length of the tail
d. The size of the claws
33. According to the key below, to what family does the plant above belong?
a. Viper’s bugloss (Echium vulgare)
b. Virginia bluebell (Mertensia virginica)
c. Grey beardtongue (Penstemon canescens)
e. Lyre-leaved sage (salvia lyrata)
34. The kingdom of prokaryotes that live in extreme environments
a. Protists
b. Archeabacteria
c. Fungi
d. Eubacteria
e. Animalia
f. Plantae
35. In order to maintain homeostasis, it is most important for an animal to be able to—
a. Respond to its environment _
b. Hide from its predators
c. Change its habitat
d. Increase its prey population
36. Most are unicellular. They are eukaryotic. They are both autotrophic and
heterotrophic. They have a very large variety of members. They area. Animalia
b. Archeabacteria
c. Fungi
d. Protista
37. Which of these processes is carried out in the same way in both plants and animals?
a. Cellular respiration
b. Asexual reproduction
c. Circulation of body fluids
e. Excretion of metabolic wastes
38. Which of these could be successfully treated with antibiotics?
a. Common cold
b. Influenza
c. Strep throat
d. HIV
39. Which of the following would most likely change the current classification of two
closely related flower species to a single species?
a. An analysis of photosynthesis for each species
b. The discovery of a new, related species
c. An analysis of the DNA sequence of each species
d. The collection of seeds from each species
40. During a trip to a rain forest, a scientist discovered a new organism, living near some
rotting logs. The scientist observed that the organism had moist skin, no hair, and an
internal skeleton and that it laid its eggs under the logs. This organism was probably
a new species ofa. Invertebrate
b. Amphibian
c. Mammal
d. Reptile
41. Which of these hypotheses is best supported by observations of this animal?
a. This animal spends much of its time digging. _
b. This animal usually hunts for food at night.
c. This animal is herbivorous.
e. This animal has poor hearing.
42. This organism is most closely related to animals in the Phylum Arthropoda, the phylum
that contains beetles, because it has —
legs
b. antennae
c. jointed appendages
d. an elongated body
a.