Scientific Naming
Vocab
History
Levels
Dichot Key
100
Identify the following name's common name. Pinus strobes.
What is the white pine tree.
100
This is the evolutionary history of an organism.
What is phylogeny.
100
This was the first person to classify.
WHo is Aristotle.
100
What is the broadest classification level?
What is the kingdom
100
Number 13
What is narrowus beardus
200
This part comes first in a scientific name.
What is the genus.
200
This is a tool used to help identify living things.
What is a dichotomous key.
200
What two groups were all things originally classified in?
What is animal and plant.
200
How many creatures will a species describe?
What is one.
200
Number 5
What is broadus hairus
300
What are the two ways a scientific name can be written in text?
What is underlined or italicized.
300
A phrase that helps you remember the order of something based on the first letters of each word.
What is a mnemonic device.
300
This person improved Aristotle's classification system.
Who is Linnaeus
300
Creatures in the phylum cordata all have what?
What is a backbone or spine.
300
Number 11.
What is narrowus cyclops.
400
This is how a scientific name must be written in terms of capitalization.
What is genus is capitalized, species is lower case.
400
Giving living things a scientific name used to identify them.
What is binomial nomenclature.
400
This is how Aristotle classified plants.
What is size and structure.
400
List the six kingdoms.
What is animalia, plantae, protista, fungi, archaebacteria, & eubacteria.
400
Number 1
What is narrowus portus.
500
List three reasons why we use latin when making scientific names.
What is its a dead language. No 2 organisms will have the same name. It will be used internationally so all scientists can use it.
500
The science of grouping and naming living things.
What is taxonomy.
500
This is how Aristotle classified animals(3 groups)
What is land, air, water.
500
List the seven levels of classification in order from SMALLEST to LARGEST!
What is Species, Genus, Family, Order, Class, Phylum, Kingdom
500
Number 2
What is broadus archus.
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