Science Chapter 2
Test Notes
1. An animal with a backbone is a vertebrate.
2. The largest group for classifying living things is
a Kingdom.
3. The smallest group for classifying living things
is a species.
4. Organizing things into groups based on how the
things are alike is called classification.
5. Fungi is a Kingdom.
6. Family, genus, species…is in correct order from
largest to smallest.
7. An octopus and starfish are invertebrates.
8. Invertebrates are animals with no backbone.
9. The invertebrates are the group with the largest
number of species.
10. Within a kingdom a phylum is the largest
grouping of an organism.
11. An ocelot and tiger are closely related.
12. The main difference between members of
the plant kingdom and members of the animal
kingdom is that plants make their own food and
animals eat other living things.
13. A moss does not have any tubes.
14. If you have flowers and ferns in the same
flower garden, how do you know which is
which? Flowers make seeds, ferns make spores.
15. Canis domesticus and canis lupus are closely
related.
16. A snake is a vertebrate because it has a
flexible backbone.
17. Essay: Compare and contrast the wings of a
dragonfly & robin.
18. Essay: A scientist finds a new life form.
The life form is 2 m. tall. It makes its own food.
It has tubes that carry food and water through it.
It reproduces by making seeds. CLASSIFY this
life form as an animal, bacterium, fungus, plant,
or protest. Then explain how you classified it.