Date
Feldsher/Lieberman
Name
Science – Period
Chapter 9 Directed Reading Worksheet
Classification
Chapter 9.1 Classification: Sorting It All Out
Chapter 9. Vocabulary: Use the information found on pages 128-135 to define each term.
Write your definition in the space provided in complete sentences using your own words, or
words you understand. Do not use the glossary definitions.
1. Archebacteria
2. Eubacteria
3. Protista
4. Plantae
5. Fungi
6. Animalia
Objectives:
 To explain how classification schemes for kingdoms developed as greater numbers of
different organisms became known
 To list the six kingdoms and provide (give) two characteristics of each
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Section 9.2: The Six Kingdoms (p. 208)
1. ______________________________ and ____________________________________
were the only kingdoms used to classify organisms before the discovery of organisms like
Euglena, which has characteristics of both of these kingdoms.
What Is It? (p. 208)
2. What are the characteristics of Euglena? (Circle all that apply.)
a. They move around.
b. They are multicellular.
c. They can make their own food.
d. They can use food from other organisms.
3. Scientists classify Euglena in the kingdom ________________________________.
4. Do you think there will always be six kingdoms used for classifying organisms? Explain.
The Two Kingdoms of Bacteria (p. 209)
5. Bacteria are different from all other living things in that
a. they are single-celled organisms.
b. they have ribosomes.
c. they do not have nuclei.
d. they are microscopic.
Choose the bacteria kingdom in Column B that best matches the description in Column A,
and write the corresponding letter in the space provided.
The bacteria kingdoms may be used more than once.
Column A
Column B
_____ 6. live inside humans
_____ 7. cause pneumonia
a. Archaebacteria
_____ 8. live in places where most other organisms could not survive
b. Eubacteria
_____ 9. name means “ancient”
_____ 10. turn milk into yogurt
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Kingdom Protista (p. 210)
11. Protists are all eukaryotic organisms that are not
, or
.
12. All protists are single-celled organisms. True or False? (Circle one.)
,
Kingdom Plantae (p. 211)
13. Plants make sugar by using energy from the
.
.
14. List two examples of fungi.
during a process called
and
15. Fungi absorb nutrients from their surroundings
a. through photosynthesis.
b. after breaking them down with digestive juices.
c. by surrounding their food and engulfing it.
d. by eating like animals.
Kingdom Animalia (p. 213)
16. Most animals share which of the following characteristics? (Circle all that apply.)
a. They have a nervous system.
b. They can move around.
c. They photosynthesize.
d. They are unicellular.
17. Unlike the cells of fungi, plants, most protists, and bacteria, animal cells do not have
. (cell walls or nuclei)
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Notes: Read the following section highlights.
 At first, living things were classified as either plants or animals. As scientists discovered more
about living things and discovered more organisms, new kingdoms were added that were
more descriptive than the old two-kingdom system.
 Most biologists recognize six kingdoms—Archaebacteria, Eubacteria, Protista, Plantae, Fungi,
and Animalia.
 Bacteria are prokaryotes, single-celled organisms that do not contain nuclei. The organisms of
all other kingdoms are eukaryotes, organisms that have cells with nuclei.
 Archaebacteria have been on Earth for about 3 billion years and can live where most
other organisms cannot survive.
 Most bacteria are eubacteria and live almost everywhere. Some are harmful, and some are
beneficial.
 Plants, most fungi, and animals are complex multicellular organisms. Plants perform
photosynthesis. Fungi break down material outside their body and then absorb the
nutrients. Animals eat food, which is digested inside their body.
1. Explain how classification schemes for kingdoms developed as greater numbers of
different organisms became known.
2. List the six kingdoms and provide (give) two characteristics of each
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