Kingdoms of Life Flashcards
1. List the 8 characteristics all living organisms have in common.
2. Organism
3. Cell
4. What is the green chemical in plant cells that allows plants to use the
Sun’s energy for making food?
5. What are the jobs of each of the major plant and animal cell parts named
on p. A6-7?
6. Which structures do plant cells have but animal cells do not? Which one
does some animal cells have that plant cells do not?
7. What is the difference between nonliving and dead?
8. Order the levels of organization in multicellular organisms from simplest
to most complex.
9. Classification
10. What is the difference between eukaryotes and prokaryotes?
11. What is binomial nomenclature?
12. What is the difference between vascular and nonvascular plants? Give an
example of each.
13. What are the two major divisions of the plant kingdom?
14. What are the two major divisions of the animal kingdom?
15. What is the main difference between an invertebrate and a vertebrate?
Give an example of each.
16. Fungus
17. How are members of the fungus kingdom different from plants?
18. Protist
19. Bacteria
20. Reread p. A10 and the classification article found on the SOS5 Wiki.
Write a paragraph (5-7 sentences) about how the classification of living
things has changed with the advances of technology. Be sure to include
information from both sources in your essay.