Taxonomy/Cladograms
Geologic Time Scale/Mass Extinctions
Protists
Animal Characteristics
RANDOM
100

These two taxons make up a scientific name.

What is genus and species?

100

Geo- means this.

What is rock?

100

Malaria is spread via this way.

What is a mosquito?

100

Animals are multicellular, heterotrophic, and ____ -karyotic?

What is eukaryotic?

100

Based on their names, one can tell that the baboons “Papio annubis” and “Papio cynocephalus” do NOT belong to the same ______?

What is species?

200

There are six kingdoms. Of the six, ____ are prokaryotic, ____ are eukaryotic.

2 Prokaryotic; 4 Eukaryotic
200

These are the remains or traces of an organism from the geologic past that has been preserved in sediment or rock.

What are fossils?

200

Fungus contain chitin in their cell walls; whereas fungus-like protists contain ________________.

What is cellulose?

200

Jellyfish exhibit this type of symmetry.

What is radial symmetry?

200

Budding, fragmentation, regeneration, parthenogenesis are examples of this.

What is asexual reproduction?

300

Levels of Classification - Most Specific to Broad

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

300

Scientists find that two organisms from different species have a similar genetic sequence, meaning they..

Evolved from a common ancestor?

300

These are the ways protists move.

What are cilia, flagella, and pseudopods?

300

These are the two main types of animals (Hint: Think of support).

What are vertebrates and invertebrates?

300

The tendency to concentrate nervous tissue and sensory organs at the anterior end.

What is cephalization?

400

Which of the following is true?

a. Lamprey have jaws.

b. Amphibians have a bony skeleton.

c. Crocodiles do not produce amniotic eggs.

b. Amphibians have a bony skeleton.

400

This marks the time when most of the major groups of animals first appeared in the fossil record.

What was the Cambrian Explosion?

400

Protists can exhibit these characteristics (name 2).

Unicellular/Multicellular

Heterotrophic/Autotrophic

Eukaryotic!

400

Flatworms do not have a body cavity and are known to be a/an __________________.

What is an acoelomate?

400

The largest mass extinction.

What was the Permian-Triassic Extinction?

500

Two descendants that split from the same node on a phylogenetic tree.

What is a sister group?

500

These are the main causes of the mass extinctions.

What is climate change, volcanic activity, and meteor impact?

500

Protists are classified this way.

What are methods of nutrition?

500

In most invertebrates, the blastopore develops into the mouth first. These organisms are known as ______________________.

What are protostomes?

500

Name the Eukaryotic & Prokaryotic Kingdoms.

Eukaryotic - Plants, Fungi, Animals, Protists

Prokaryotic - Bacteria & Archaea

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