A category that exists
Earth is tilted 23 1/2 degrees on its axis and combined with its revolution around the sun, what does it cause?
It causes the vegetive growing seasons necesarry for food supplies
The earth has a _______ that acts as a protective shield.
The earth has a OZONE LAYER that helps protect the earth from solar ultraviolet radiation.
The earth has two primary constituents in the atmosphere. What are they, and how much of them are there?
Nitrogen (78%) and Oxygen (20%)
The moon revolves around the earth regulating the...
Ocean's tides
__________ is a method used to try and determine the age of fossils and rocks.
Radioactive dating
Researchers have determined that C-14 has a half-life of...
5,700 years!
That is a very long half life : )
The science of naming and assigning organisms into groups is called...
Taxonomy tak·saa·nuh·mee
Not taxidermy
Swedish botanist,____________, invented the system that is used today to classify organisms.
Carolus Linnaeus
Carp and lima beans
He based his classification on________, which is the study of the structure of organisms.
Carolus Linnaeus based his classification on morphology.
The order of the hierarchy of biology categories is:
Kingdom, Phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species.
King Philip Cried Out: For Goodness Sakes!
Linnaeus gave each organism a two part name in Latin. The first part is the___ , and the second name refers to the____.
The first part is the genus, and the second name refers to the species.
The domestic cat is called Felis domesticus.Species refers to a population of organisms that share similar_________________ and that may interbreed in nature.
Characteristics
The six kingdoms of life are...
Archaebacteria, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, Eubacteria, and Animalia.
Mnemonic: Aunt Paula Found Peter Eating Apples.
And ecologist,____________, developed a five-kingdom system in 1968 after new organisms were discovered that didn't fit into the two kingdoms.
Robert Whittaker.
___________ lack a nuclear membrane and have no membrane-bound organelles, and___________ have a nuclear membrane that surrounds the DNA and have other membrane-bound organelles.
Prokaryotic cells, and Eukaryotic cells
________ are organisms that produce their own food, but ____________ are organisms that are dependent on other organisms for food.
Autotrophs are plants
Heterotrophs are humans.
Protista.
Fungi differ from plants because they...
Cannot make their own food.
__________ change light energy into food energy.
Autotrophs
Plants are autotrophs
All members of the plant kingdom have cell walls that contain ___________.
Cellulose
The last clarification that has been added and is the most inclusive in known as ________.
Domain.
One of the only things that do not fit into domain is viruses.
Identify the kingdom each of the following organisms belong to.
Mushroom:
Paramecium:
E. coli:
Acidophilus:
Moss:
Bird:
Mushroom: fungi
Paramecium: Protista
E. coli: Eubacteria ( remember that E.coli is a bacteria, so euBACTERIA)
Acidophilus: Archaebacteria
Moss: Plantae
Bird: Animalia