Taxonomy
Characteristics of Animals
Stadium High School
Science Teacher
Potporri
100

This scientist is given credit for creating modern taxonomy.

Who is Carl Linnaeus?

100

This term describes a phylum of animals with a spinal chord.

What is chordata?

100

Stadium will battle against this football team tonight.

Who are the Silas Rams?

100

Your teacher's first and last name.

What is Eric Schmidt.

100

This Greek scientist and philosopher studied chicken eggs to try and find ways to organize animals into groups.

Who is Aristotle?

200

This domain includes all living cells with a nucleus.

What are eukaryotes?

200

This term describes animals that are warm blooded, give live birth, and feed their young milk.

What are mammals?

200

Stadium High School's colors and mascot.

What are royal blue and gold and a Tiger?

200

The high school and/or college that your teacher graduated from.

What is Puyallup High School and/or Western Washington University?

200

This states that all cells come from existing cells.

What is cell theory?

300

This order contains lions, wolves, bears, and sealions.

What are carnivores?

300

This is a general term used to describe animals with hooves.

What are ungulates?

300

The name of the 1999 romcom that was set at Stadium High School.

What is 10 Things I Hate About You?

300

The location of your teacher's first international teaching job.

What is Shanghai, China?

300

The three main examples of animals found in the order primates.

What are apes, monkeys, and lemurs?

400

The four common kingdoms.

What are protists, fungi, plants and animals?

400

This is a general term is used to describe ocean mammals like whales and dolphins.

What are cetaceans?

400

The number of credits that you need to graduate from Stadium High School.

What are 24 credits?

1 credit for each class in grades 9, 10, 11, and 12.

400

One of the locations where Mr. Schmidt rode his bicycle to this past summer.

What are Hurrican Ridge, Mt. St. Helens, and/or Vancouver, Canada?

400

There are two examples of living things that do not have a nucleus.

What are bacteria and archae?

500

The phylum that contains clams, snails, and octopi.

What is mollusca?

500

Insects, arachnids, and crustaceans are all part of this phylum.

What are arthropods?

500

The names of the four administrators at Stadium.

What is Mrs. Marshall, Mrs. Sage, Mr. Folsom, and Mr. Tuman?

500

The number of years that Mr. Schmidt has worked at Stadium High School.

What is 3?

(this is his 3rd year)

500

The 8 levels of taxonomy.

What is domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species?

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