Classification 1
Why do scientists classify all living organisms?
To help communicate clearly what animal they're talking about
The person who developed the modern classification system
Carolus (Carl) Linnaeus
An animal that only eats plants
Herbivore
An animal that only eats meat
Carnivore
What is the largest living bear species, and largest living land carnivore?
The polar bear
Animals that have a backbone
Vertibrates
Animals that have no internal skeleton or backbone
Invertebrates
What do decomposers do in food chains?
Break down dead organisms and wastes
Where do producers get there energy from?
The Sun
Twenty percent of the oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere is provided exclusively by what large rainforest?
The Amazon rainforest
The two naming system used to give all living species a unique name
Binomial nomenclature
The two levels of taxonomy used to give each animal their scientific name.
Genus and Species
What does the arrow in a food web show you?
Where the energy is going to (who is doing the eating)
What is a food chain?
A diagram that shows who is eating whom in an ecosystem.
(How nutrients and energy are being passed on)
Turtles, toads, and tarantulas are all ectothermic animals, which is typically referred to by what more common term?
Cold-blooded
Name all the characteristics that we use to determine living things
MR N GREWW = Move, Reproduce, Nutrition, Respond, Exchange, Waste, Water
The seven levels to the Linnaean taxonomy system
Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
Describe a food chain with one producer, and three consumers.
(Answers will vary)
Describe a food chain with one producer, and three consumers.
(Answers will vary)
Sharing their name with a cleaning tool, what is the common name of the worlds most simple animals from the phylum Porifera?
Sponges
The 5 kingdoms of life
Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Monera and Protista
A common type of key used to classify living things.
Dichotomous Key
Name an introduced species into Australia and their impact on an Australian ecosystem.
Examples: Fox, rabbit, cane toad, pig, camel
An animal or plant is one that lives in the wild but is descended from domesticated individuals (e.g. feral cats, feral dogs, feral pigs)
Are Australian Magpies considered to be a corvids? (birds like crow and ravens)
No! despite being named after the European magpies (Family Corvidae), which have similar colouring, Australian Magpies are more closely related to butcherburds and currawongs (Family Artamidae).