Lesson 1
What is the definition of classification? (A6)
What is Grouping things using a set of rules.
What do we call an animal WITH a backbone?
Vertebrate.
What do we call a plant that has tubes?
A vascular plant.
What are the two main groups of plants?
Vascular and non vascular plants.
Where do grasshoppers thigh muscles attach?
The inside of its skeleton at flexible joints.
What is the definition of Kingdom?
What is, the largest group into which living things can be classified.
What do we call animals without a backbone?
Invertebrates.
What do we call a plant that does not have tubes?
A nonvascular plant.
What are the 5 smaller groups of animals?
mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and birds.
Where is the heartwood located in a tree?
The very center of the tree.
What make up the 5 Kingdoms?
What are, animals, plants, fungi, protists, and monerans.
What is the definition of an arthropod?
Invertebrates with legs that have several joints.
What is carried by the tubes in a vascular plant?
Water and nutrients.
What is an example of an arthropod?
beetles, crabs, scorpions, etc
What is the name of one celled creatures that make their own food or feed on other living things?
Protists
What kingdom contains one-celled living things without nuclei?
A. plants
B. Monerans
C. fungi
D. Protists
What is monerans.
What do we call an animal that is an invertebrate and may or may not have a hard outer shell?
A mullosk
It has to soak into them.
Do nonvascular plants have roots, stems, or leaves?
No
What are the characteristics of mammals?
They have hair or fur, make milk for their young, breath air with lungs and are warm blooded.
Why aren't fungi considered plants?
Because they don't make their own food.
What characteristic do all invertebrates (arthropods and mollusks) have in common?
They do not have a backbone.
Which of these is an example of a vascular plant?
A. conifer
B. fern
C. moss
D. flower
C. moss
What is the name of the second smallest group of animals?
genus
What is the percentage of all of the animals that have a backbone?
3%