Classification of Living Things
This is the newest eighth level of classification.
What is domain?
A piece of land that is surrounded by water on three sides but is still connected to land.
What is a peninsula?
You can get into NYC from New Jersey by the Lincoln one of these.
What is tunnel?
Whether it’s a problem in the eye or a waterfall it’s from the Greek for “to dash down”.
What is cataract?
In this kingdom you may expect to find a ruler with ice powers (oh, sorry she moved to an enchanted forest at the North Pole or something like that) ahem the sister of someone with ice powers is the ruler.
What is Arendelle?
This is the third most general level of classification.
What is phylum?
This word meaning a type of punctuation mark is also an organ and a currency in some countries.
What is colon?
The name of this street that cuts diagonally through Manhattan is synonymous with big time theater.
What is Broadway?
This word for a kind of landmass comes from a word meaning “to contain”.
What is Continent?
This is where Percy Jackson was trained as a demigod.
Where is Camp Half-blood?
He created our modern classification system and is known as “The Father of Taxonomy”
Who is Carolus Linnaeus?
This word often associated with fear means not endowed with logic or reason. It is also a type of number.
What is irrational?
While Soho is South of Houston Street, this fashionable district occupies a “Triangle Below Coral”.
What is Tribeca?
This term for a leading character of a literary work comes from the Greek for “first combatant”.
What is protagonist?
This kingdom is represented by a sun as well as a princess with powers from the sun.
Where is Corona?
This tool uses paired statements to identify organisms based on their physical and chemical characteristics.
What is a Dichotomous Key?
This word that in root is one of itself means a contradictory statement where opposite terms are combined.
What is oxymoron?
Now named for a benefactor, it opened in 1905 as the Institute of Musical Art.
What is Juilliard?
Form the Italian for “bench”, it’s a sumptuous feast given in someone’s honor.
What is Banquet?
This fictional country that lies between Spain and France is known for its pears and American Princess.
Where is Genovia?
These two levels of classification make up an organism’s scientific name.
What are genus and species?
This word means stone bracket projections from the case of a wall and is used to support an arch.
What is corbal?
Brooklyn was the scene of the August 1776 “Battle of” this island.
What is Long Island?
This large, triangular sail used on some racing yachts is said to drive it’s name from a yacht called the sphinx.
What is spinnaker?
This land is a universe parallel to ours is inhabited by most fairytale characters. They call our world ”The Otherworld”.
Where is The Land of Stories?