Building Blocks of Life
How Are Living Things Grouped?
How Are Plants Classified?
How Are Animals Classified?
"Hodge-Podge"
100
The cell wall is outside the cell membrane. It helps support and protect the cell. Do plant and animal cells both have this?
No. Only plant cells have cell mebranes
100
What is the first part of an organisms scientific name?
Genus
100
Thes types of plants have tubelike structures that help move water and nutrients.
Vascular Plants
100
Scientists divide the animal kingdom into two main groups. What are the groups?
Vertabrates, Invertabrates
100
Alligators and crocodiles are examples of...
Reptiles
200
What is the control center of a cell?
The nucleus
200
Which kingdom do mushrooms, yeast, and fungi belong to?
Fungi
200
Hornworts don’t have true stems or leaves. Are they vascular, or nonvascular?
Nonvascular
200
What are animals without backbones called?
Invertabrates
200
How are the life cycles of the Burmese Pyhton and the Brown Garden Snail similar?
Both lay eggs, the eggs hatch, the mothers leave the young to care for themselves, the cycle starts all over again.
300
What is the gel-like liquid in a cell
cytoplasm
300
What is the second part of an organisms scientific name?
species
300
Another way that scientists classify plants is by how they make new plants, or reproduce. Name two ways plants do this.
Plants with flowers or cones produce seeds. Other plants reproduce using spores.
300
Animals with backbones are called...
Vertabrates
300
What is an adaptation?
An adaptation is a physical feature or behavior that helps an animal get food, protect itself, move, or reproduce.
400
What is the cell part that traps the Sun's energy? Only plants have this.
chloroplast
400
What kingdom is being described? *Many-celled organisms that make their own food
Plant
400
Grass, ferns, dandelions, celery, and trees are all examples of what kind of plants?
Vascular
400
Warm-blooded vertabrates with hair or fur are called...
Mammals
400
What does migration mean? Is this something learned or an instinct?
Migration is traveling in search of food or a place to reproduce. Migration is a natural behavior for an organism. It is an instinct (does not need to be learned.)
500
What is the smallest unit of a living thing that performs all life processes?
A cell
500
How many kingdoms are there? - Name them.
6 (Plants, Animals, True Bacteria, Ancient Bacteria, Fungi, and Protists)
500
Bamboo has tubelike structures that connect all the organs of the plant. What are the organs of the plant?
roots, stems, leaves
500
Vertebrates are divided into five classes. Name them
Fish, Birds, Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibians
500
Give 3 examples of animal adaptations
Sample answers: camoflague, poison, webbed feet, feathers, fur, hard shells, stingers