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Classy Classification
Which one?
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100
When a rabbit nibbles on grass or a shark eats a fish, both organisms are demonstrating this characteristic of living things.
What is the need to obtain and use energy?
100
This is the basic building block of all living organisms.
What is a cell?
100
An organism that is one meter tall, green, and makes its own food using energy from the sun would be part of this kingdom.
What is plantae?
100
This type of microscope would be used for observing a living gnat.
What is some form/type of LIGHT microscope?
100
This type of reproduction creates an offspring that is identical to the parent organism.
What is asexual reproduction?
200
A single-celled organism dividing to make two identical organisms would be an example of this trait shared by all living things.
What is reproduction?
200
This term refers to an organism that is made up of two or more cells.
What is multicellular?
200
When a pea plant is pollinated by another pea plant and a seed is formed, this type of reproduction has occurred.
What is sexual reproduction-two different plants (parent organisms) were needed to create the seed and the new plant that will grow from it.
200
These two parts of an organisms' classification are used as that organisms' scientific name.
What are the genus and species?
200
These are the two main types of microscopes.
What are light and electron?
300
When we talk about organisms being unicellular or multicellular, we are referring to this characteristic of living things.
What is ORGANIZATION?
300
This is the system of using genus and species to determine an animal's scientific name.
What is binomial nomenclature?
300
This scientist helped to develop a more extensive classification system for organisms and is sometimes known as the father of taxonomy.
Who is Carolus Linnaeus?
300
This scientist used a microscope to discover and document cells.
Who was Robert Hooke?
300
These are the three domains.
What are archaea, bacteria, and eukarya?
400
If you hear a loud noise and cover your ears, that would be an example of this characteristic of living things.
What is responds to stimulus?
400
This refers to maintaining a proper internal balance even when external conditions change.
What is homeostasis?
400
This Greek scholar was one of the first people to try to classify living things.
Who was Aristotle?
400
Any unicellular organisms would be most likely found in one of these THREE kingdoms.
What are protista, bacteria, and archaea?
400
These are the six kingdoms.
What are bacteria, archaea, protista, animalia, plantae, and fungi?
500
When a caterpillar begins to change into a butterfly, this would be an example of the following characteristic of living things.
What is growth and development? (This is specifically an example of development.)
500
This is a term that refers to the event or feeling that makes you respond or do something?
What is stimulus?
500
A carrot, a fly, and a mushroom would all be found in this DOMAIN.
What is Eukarya?
500
Looking at the food web below, these would be possible sources of energy for the snake.
What are the mouse and rabbit?
500
List the 6 characteristics shared by all living things.
homeostasis, respond to stimuli, need energy, organized with cells, reproduce, develop and grow
600
Shivering to keep our bodies at the proper temperature or keeping the right balance of salts and fluids in our bodies would be examples of this characteristic of living things.
What is homeostasis?
600
This is a word meaning the process or system of classifying organisms into groups.
What is taxonomy?
600
This scientist helped to invent an early version of the microscope. This invention allowed many more organisms to be discovered and classified.
Who was Anton van Leeuwenhoek?
600
This type of organism (unicellular or multicellular) can grow ONLY by increasing in size.
Unicellular organisms can ONLY grow by increasing in size. Multicellular organisms can also increase the number of cells.
600
List the levels of classification.
Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species