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SCIENCE – CLASSIFICATION
CL-4
March 15, 2007
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SCIENCE – CLASSIFICATION
How do scientists classify living things? What are the characteristics of the kingdoms of living things?
PLANTAE
ANIMALIA
KINGDOM
5 KINGDOMS CHART
The way it gets
its food
(Hetero or
autotroph?
If auto, chemo or
phosynthesis?)
Heterotrophs
Autrotrophs
(photosynthetic) and
a few Heterotrophs
(some parasitic)
Organization
(Uni or multicellular?
Eukaryote or
prokaryote?)
Mullticellular,
Eukaryotic
Unicellular (e.g.
algae) and
multicellular,
Eukaryotic
Importance and role in our world
Example organism
(give common name, scientific
name, description, and picture)
Extra Facts
Crown-of-thorns (Acanthaster planci) is a
Consumer (i.e a hetertrophic organism that eats
The largest animal ever to
starfish that lives in
other organisms or organic waste) in food chains
believed to have existed was
Australia. It feeds off the coral polyps of the
Can be a herbivore, carnivore, or omnivore.
the blue whale.
coral reef.
Surprisingly, it eats one of
When too many of
Serves as a food source and provides assistance,
the smallest organisms,
Them are present, they
transportation, recreation, and companionship.
phytoplankton (from kingdom
can destroy a reef;
Can be a source of as well as a solution for
Protista)!
they are second only to humans in destroying
environmental problems.
reef habitat!
The Venus Fly Trap
Plants can be found in the
(
(Dionaea muscipula),
water (algae) and on land (e.g.
even though it eats
moss and ferns).
insects, can survive without
Serves as a food and medicinal source; used as them because it uses sunlight for its food
Plants can be vascular (have
dyes, in building material, and as the component also. Scientists believe it evolved the ability
tissues for transporting
of some fuels.
to “eat” insects in response to the fact that its materials through its structure
habitat is void in proper nutrients and
– e.g. fern) and nonvascular
sunlight (it lives in a bog/marsh ecosystem).
(no tissue for transporting
materials – e.g. algae and
moss).
KINGDOM
MONERA
Autorophs
(Photosynthetic)
and
Hetrotrophs
(absorb or engulf
their food)
FUNGI
Heterotrophs and
Autotrophs
(Chemo and
Photosynthetic)
PROTISTA
The way it gets
its food
(Hetero or
autotroph?
If auto, chemo or
phosynthesis?)
Heterotrophic
(parasitic or absorb
food from
environment)
Organization
(uni or multicellular?
Eukaryote or
prokaryote?)
Unicellular
(filamentous or
colonial),
ALL prokaryotic
Uni and multicellular, some
colonial and
filamentous, ALL
eukaryotic
Importance and role in our
world
Example organism
(give common name, scientific
name, description, and picture)
Extra Facts
Some strains of the bacteria
Important in ALL food chains, help
Escherichia Coli are harmless;
maintain supply of nutrients by decomposing
however, others are not.
wastes, some produce oxygen, used in
antibiotics, important part of human/animal One strain of E. Coli is responsible for the flu-like
intestines (help break down food), also used symptoms that result when undercooked meat is
in cleaning up environmental problems like contaminated with it.
oil spills.
Bacteria were the first form of life
on Earth. Some Monera are Algae
(e.g. cyanobacteria/blue-green
algae).
Antibiotics come from chemicals
that certain bacteria produce; these
help to weaken or kill bacteria and
fight infection and disease!
Paramecia (Paramecium Caudatum)
are protists that have tiny hairs (cilia)
Important producer in aquatic food chains,
on the outside of their body that they
food source for many organisms, one species
use to move through the water. They also
helps to produce oxygen. Some may be
use these hairs to “push” food towards their oral
parasitic and cause sickness.
grooves (i.e. a tiny mouth). Paramecia live in pond
ecosystems.
Some protists are plant-like and
others are very animal-like…these
differing characteristics were
collectively one of the reasons why
scientists decided to abandon the
two kingdom system of Aristotle!
Decomposer (decays/breaks down wastes,
dead materials – prevents build up of wastes
Uni and
from living things), produces antibiotics, used
multicellular,
some filamentous,
to make bread and alcohol, damages crops
ALL eukaryotic
(parasitic).
The Portobella Mushroom
(Agaricus Bisporus) is the mushroom that
we grill as a low-cal replacement of meat…hence
“agaricus” means grilled! It is the most commonly
grown mushroom in the States!
A Honey Mushroom (Amillaria
Ostoyae) in a forest in Oregon is
believed to be the world’s largest
living organism. It is about 8,500
years old and covers nearly 10
square kilometres of forest floor –
i.e. an equivalent to about 1,600
football fields.
Some forms of fungi are used in
medicines to fight infection (e.g.
penicillin).
Most fungi are made up of tubular
structures called HYPHAE.
PART DIRECTIONS: Fill in the chart below using your 5 KINGDOMS CHART.
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CATEGORY
1
Kingdom(s) that have organisms that do NOT
have nuclear membranes in their cells
2
Kingdom(s) that have ONLY unicellular species
3
Kingdom(s) that have species which make or
synthesize their food using light or chemicals
4
Kingdom(s) that have species that are eukaroytic
5
Kingdom(s) that have species that help cure
diseases
6
Kingdom(s) that have ONLY multi-cellular species
7
Kingdom(s) that have prokaryotic species
8
Kingdom(s) that have species which help to clean
up the environment
9
Kingdom(s) that have species which cause disease
10
Kingdom(s) that have organisms that DO have
nuclear membranes in their cells
11
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Kingdom(s) that have BOTH multi-cellular and
unicellular species
12
Kingdom(s) that can be broken up into two
groups: VASCULAR and NON-VASCULAR
13
Kingdom(s) that make O2 for the Earth
14
Kingdom(s) that contain the organism ALGAE
15
Kingdom(s) that species that feed off of other
organisms (dead or alive)
16
Kingdom(s) that have specie with cilia or flagella
that help them to move or grasp onto materials in
their environment.
17
Kingdom(s) that contain producers (organisms that
use sunlight or chemicals to make energy and serve
as a food source for consumers).
18
Kingdom(s) that contain organisms that may
destroy habitats.
KINGDOM(S)
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CATEGORY
19
Kingdom(s) that are helpful to the environment.
20
Kingdom(s) that serve as a food source for other
kingdoms.
21
Kingdom(s) that contain decomposers (organisms
that break down wastes).
22
Kingdom(s) that contain species that are parasites
(organisms that live at the expense of another
organism).
23
Kingdom(s) that have species made up of tubular
structures called hyphae.
24
Kingdom(s) that contain species that are
microscopic.
25
Kingdom(s) that contain some species that are
plant—like and some species that are animal-like.
KINGDOM(S)