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Classification
Kingdoms
Kingdoms Cont.
100

These are organisms that must consume another organism for energy.

What are consumers?

100

A group of animals WITH a backbone or spine

What are Vertebrates 

100

A group of animals without a backbone 

What are INVERTEBRATES

100
These are the six kingdoms for organisms.
What are Bacteria, Archaea, Protista, Plantae, Fungi, and Animalia?
100

A kingdom of multicellular, eukaryotic organisms that contain cell walls. These organism make their own food.

What are plants?

200
The last word in an organism’s scientific name represents this.
What is the species?
200

A single cell

What is unicellular?

200

The process of grouping things based on their similarities

What is classification?

200

A kingdom of eukaryotic, multicellular organisms that lack cell walls and must consume food for energy.

What is Animalia?
200
These organisms get nutrients and energy by breaking down dead organisms and animal waste.
What are decomposers?
300
These organisms make their own food, typically by photosynthesis.
What are producers?
300

Multiple cells

What is multicellular?

300

The scientific name for a squirrel is Sciurus carolinensis. Sciurus would be the organism's

What is genus?

300

A kingdom of eukaryotic, mostly multicellular organisms with cell walls made chitin. These organisms obtain energy from decomposing dead organisms and absorbing their nutrients.

What is Fungi?

300

A tool used to identify organisms based on a series of choices between different characteristics.

What is a dichotomous key?

400

Another word for producer

What is an autotroph?

400
Linnaeus’s two-word system for naming organisms is called

What is binomial nomenclature?

400
Archaea and Bacteria are both entirely composed of this type of cell.
What are prokaryotic cells?
400

A kingdom of prokaryotic, unicellular organisms that live in extreme environments.

What is Archaebacteria?

400
The science of naming and grouping organisms is known as this.
What is taxonomy?
500

Another word for consumer

What is heterotroph?

500
Starting with Kingdom, these are the seven classification categories for organisms in order of increasing specificity.
What are Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species?
500

Describes an organism that is able to maintain its body heat independent of its environment 

What is Endothermic 

500

A kingdom of diverse, eukaryotic organisms. Most are unicellular, but some may be multicellular. Some are "plant-like", "animal-like", and "fungi-like"

What are protists?

500

Protista and fungi have some members that are unicellular.  But in these two kingdoms ALL members are unicellular.  

What are Kingdoms Archaebacteria and Eubacteria?