Taxonomy
Vital Functions 1
Vital Functions 2
Invertebrates
Vertebrates
100

The number of levels of scientific classification.

What is 7?

100

The two types of circulatory systems.

What are open and closed systems?

100

The act of food traveling through your body.

What is digestion?

100

The way to determine the age of a clam.

What is counting its growth rings?

100
What vertebrates have that invertebrates do not.

What is a backhone?

200

The broadest level of classification. 

What is Kingdom?

200

A lizard shooting blood out of its eye or a crab giving up its claw in defense is part of this vital function.

What is sensitivity?

200

The two types of support systems.

What are endoskeletons and exoskeletons? 

200

Insects are this type of invertebrate. 

What are arthropods?

200

The two terms used to distinguish how vertebrates produce young. 

What are oviparous and viviparous? 

300

The most specific classification.

What is species?
300

The six vital functions of life.

What are nutrition, respiration, circulation, support, sensitivity, and reproduction?

300

Name the two main stages of respiration 

What is Inhalation (inhale oxygen) and exhalation (exhale carbon dioxide)?

300

This echinoderm can shoot out its organs as a defense mechanism.

What is a sea cucumber?

300
These vertebrates give live birth, raise their young on milk, and have a 4 chambered heart.

What are mammals? 

400
The mnemonic device we used to remember the 7 levels of classification.

What is "King Phillip Came Over For Good Spaghetti"?

400
The three different groups of animals based on what they eat.
What are herbivores, omnivores, and carnivores?
400

The three main groups found in a food chain.

What are producers, consumers, and decomposers?

400

At least 4 out of 8 invertebrate groups.

What are Porifera, Cnidarians, Platyhelminthes, Nematoda, Annelida, Echinodermata, Mollusk, and Arthropod?

400

This vertebrate group has hollow bones.

What is a bird?

500

The levels of scientific classification in order AND the five kingdoms of life.

What is Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species AND protist, fungi, planti, anamalia, and prokaryote?

500
The 3 stages in the eating process.

What are ingest (take in), digest (process), and egest (excrete)?

500

The three main parts of the circulatory system.

What are the heart, blood vessels, and blood?

500

The three different types of worms.

What are flatworms (platyhelminthes), round worms (nematoda), and segmented worms (annelida)?

500

The five groups of vertebrates.

What are pisces (fish), reptilia (reptiles), aves (birds), mammalia (mammals), and amphibia (amphibians)?

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