Classification of Living Organisms
This branch of biology is used to name and classify living organisms based on shared characteristics.
What is Taxnonomy?
These organisms are called producers because they can make their own food.
What are autotrophs?
This type of organism must consume other organisms to obtain energy.
What is a heterotroph?
This is the largest ecosystem on Earth that includes all others.
What is the ecosphere?
This 2015 animated Pixar movie helps explain emotions as systems working together—just like an ecosystem
What is Inside Out?
This is the correct order of classification from the most specific to the most general.
What is species, genus, family, order, class, phylum, kingdom?
This process allows plants, algae, and some bacteria to produce food using sunlight.
What is photosynthesis?
An animal with both flat and sharp teeth that eats berries, insects, and small animals is classified as this.
What is an omnivore?
Living components of an ecosystem, such as plants and animals, are called these factors.
What are biotic factors?
This superhero movie from 2015 highlights how small changes can have big impacts—similar to invasive species.
What is Ant-Man?
If two organisms share the same genus but not the same species, this describes their relationship.
What is that they closely related but not identical?
Grass, algae, and some bacteria belong to this nutritional group.
What are autotrophs?
Cows and rabbits belong to this heterotrophic category.
What are herbivores?
Groups of ecosystems with similar climates and vegetation are known as these.
What are biomes?
This popular 2010s video game involves building environments and managing resources, similar to ecosystems.
What is Minecraft?
Scientists use this type of naming system so that organisms have the same name worldwide.
What is the use of Latin (scientific) names?
Without these organisms, energy would not enter most food chains.
What are producers?
These organisms help recycle nutrients by breaking down dead matter.
What are decomposers?
Temperature and precipitation are examples of these factors that shape ecosystems.
What are abiotic factors?
This Swedish environmental activist, frequently referenced in classrooms, became globally famous during the 2010s.
Who is Greta Thunberg?
This taxonomic level includes organisms that are very similar and can reproduce to produce fertile offspring.
What is species?
These autotrophs live in water and can be single-celled or multicellular, like seaweed.
What are algae?
Lions and eagles are examples of this type of heterotroph that eats other animals.
What are carnovires?
This science studies how living organisms interact with each other and with their environment.
What is ecology?
This 2010s movie about dinosaurs reminds us what can happen when ecosystems are not balanced.
What is Jurassic World?