Name the two explorers that described hundreds of plants and animals so they could be classified.
Who is Meriwether Lewis and William Clark?
100
Clam, Fish, Beetle, Moth: Which one does not belong to the group and why?
What is Fish because it's a vertebrate.
100
Jellyfish belong to this phylum.
What are Cnidarians?
100
What is vascular, reproduces using cones and seeds, doesn't have flowers, and needles of many are special leaves?
What are conifers?
100
How are plants similar to animals?
What is multicellular?
200
To put things into groups
What is classify?
200
warm-blooded, hair or fur, mother's milk for young
What are characteristics of mammals?
200
Butterflies, moths, and houseflies that have life cycles that include big changes.
What is complete metamorphosis?
200
What is vascular, does not have seeds, and does not have flowers?
What is a fern?
200
Type of "chart" that is used to identify an unknown organism.
What is a dichotomous key?
300
These two skills are used to classify organisms.
What are observation and comparison?
300
This group goes through metamorphosis - their young look nothing like when they are adults.
What are amphibians?
300
John was grouping animals as invertebrates. Sally told him he did not complete the grouping correctly. What is wrong with this grouping: worm, octopus, spider, platypus?
The platypus is a vertebrate.
300
What do we call a plant that has special tubes for carrying food and water to all its parts?
What is vascular?
300
Plants can do something that animals cannot.
What is make their own food.
400
Writes down details of observations daily; usually does not make careless mistakes; and can sort out details really well.
What are the skills of a good taxonomist?
400
Their lungs and stomachs are similar. Their heads have the same basic arrangement of eyes, nose, and mouth. Their life cycle is similar. However, one develops in the womb and one develops in eggs.
What are mammals and reptiles?
400
This animal phylum has a hard outer shell and a soft body.
What is a mollusk?
400
Name the four common plant phyla.
What are mosses, ferns, conifers, and flowering plants?
400
The second highest level of classification?
What is phylum?
500
Scientists used this first to group organisms.
What is an organisms structure?
500
What do you call the following words that are used to describe an animal: multicellular, cannot make their own food, and can move on their own during part or all of their lives?
What are 3 characteristics of animals?
500
What do we call the phylum that has the following characteristics: jointed feet, bodies divided into separate parts, and get oxygen in many ways?
Give an example.
What are arthropods?
Example: lobster, grasshopper, spider, etc.
500
The only group of plants that are not vascular.
What are mosses?
500
Name the Six Kingdoms of Living Things.
What are Animals, Archaebacteria, Eubacteria, Fungi, Plants, and Protists?