Definitions
Living Things
Classification System
Wild Card
100
What type of organisms make their own food?
AUTOTROPHS
100
What is the term we use for living things?
ORGANISMS
100
What is the broadest classification level?
Domain
100
What is an INVERTEBRATE?
An invertebrate is an animal without a backbone.
200
What do we call organisms that have to go find an external source of food?
HETEROTROPHS
200
What is a RESPONSE?
A response is a reaction to a change.
200
Name the biologist who arranged organisms in groups based on observable features.
Carl Linnaeus
200
Which phylum of vertebrates is a newt in?
AMPHIBIAN
300
What do you call an organism consisting of many cells?
MULTICELLULAR
300
What is the ultimate source of energy for most living things?
SUNLIGHT
300
What do you call a group of similar organisms that can mate with each other?
SPECIES
300
Most scientific names are written in what language?
LATIN
400
What is the name of the system that is used to separate animals into specific groups going from broad to specific?
CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM
400
Provide an example of a heterotroph.
Humans, animals, mammals, etc
400
How many Kingdoms are there in the Classification System?
400
The jellyfish is a type of ______________ animal.
INVERTEBRATE
500
What is the term we use to describe the maintenance of a stable internal environment?
HOMEOSTASIS
500
Provide an example of an autotroph.
Tree, flower, grass, etc.
500
List all of the Kingdoms of the classification system.
1) Archaebacteria
2) Eubacteria
3) Protista
4) Fungi
5) Plantae
6) Animalia
500
An organism's scientific name consists of __________ and ___________.
GENUS AND SPECIES
600
What is the study of how scientists classify organisms?
TAXONOMY
600
What is the basic unit of structure and function in living things?
CELLS
600
List the three domains of life.
1) Archaea
2) Bacteria
3) Eukarya
600
What is ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION?
Reproduction needing only one parent.
700
What is taxonomy?
Taxonomy is the science of classifying organisms.
700
List the four Characteristics that all living things share.
1) OBTAIN AND USE RESOURCES FOR ENERGY
2) REPRODUCE
3) RESPOND TO STIMULI
4) GROW AND DEVELOP
700
Which Domain consists of four out of the 6 kingdoms of life?
EUKARYA
700
What is the proper way to write a scientific name?
1) use the genus and species
2) capitalize the genus
3) write in italics