Levels of Classification
Five Kingdoms
Classes of Vertebrates
The Naming System
Other
100

I am the largest category of classification.

What is a kingdom? (or Domain)

100

We are in this kingdom.

What is the animal kingdom?

100
This class of vertebrates gives live birth, uses mammary glands to feed young, and is warm-blooded.
What is mammals?
100
I am the name of the man who created the classification system.
What is Carolus Linnaeus?
100

This is the Latin name for humans.

What is Homo sapiens?

200

I am the most specific level of classification.

What is species?

200

This kingdom has living things made of many cells and they make their own food.

What is Plant Kingdom?

200
This class is not air-breathing.
What is fish?
200
The language used for classification is this.
What is Latin?
200

This organism is the most abundant (more than any other) on Earth.

What are bacteria?

300

We are more general or bigger categories than classes.

What are kingdom and phylum?

300

This kingdom is made of living things that are many-celled and absorb their food.

What is Fungi Kingdom?

300
This class includes animals such as a cardinal, robin, and penguin.
What is bird?
300
Scientists chose to use one language for classification for this reason.
What is to make it easier to communicate?
300

The two words in a Latin name stand for these two levels of classification.

What are genus and species?

400

This is the way most taxonomist classify organisms.

What is by the way they feed and reproduce?

400

This is what living things have in the Protist Kingdom that living things in the Bacteria Kingdom do not have.

What is a nucleus?

400
Name the animal that is not part of the amphibian class: turtle, frog, toad, and a salamander.
What is a turtle?
400
Binomial nomenclature refers to the use of this many words in naming an organism.
What is two?
400

In a two word name for a living thing, this word is capitalized.

What is the first word or the genus?

500

The levels of classification in order from least specific to most specific.

(Domain) What are Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, species.

500

These are the names of the five kingdoms.

What are Bacteria, Protist, Plants, Fungi, and Animal Kingdoms?

500
Provide an example of three animals in the reptile class.
What are a snake, alligator, and lizard?
500

A scientist who specializes in classifying living things is called this.

What is a taxonomist?

500

The three types of protist

What are animal like, plant like and fungus like.

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