Domain and Kingdom
This domain includes humans, plants, and fungi.
What is Eukarya?
This is the science of classifying and naming organisms.
What is taxonomy?
The smallest level of organization in an ecosystem.
What is an organism?
This kingdom contains multicellular heterotrophs with no cell walls.
What is Animalia?
True or False: All protists are unicellular.
What is False?
These two domains contain only prokaryotic organisms.
What are Bacteria and Archaea?
The two parts of a scientific name are:
What are genus and species?
A group of the same species living in the same area.
What is a population?
These prokaryotic organisms are sometimes referred to as 'extremophiles'
What is archaebacteria?
What do autotrophs do that heterotrophs do not?
What is make their own food (photosynthesize)?
This kingdom includes multicellular, autotrophic organisms with cell walls.
What is Plantae?
This tool helps scientists identify organisms by answering a series of questions.
What is a dichotomous key?
All the populations of different species in an area.
What is a community?
Organisms in this kingdom are eukaryotic and absorb nutrients from other organisms.
What is Fungi?
What do we call organisms that must consume other organisms for food?
What are heterotrophs?
Organisms in this kingdom absorb nutrients from other organisms and include yeasts and molds.
What is Fungi?
Organisms are grouped into domains and kingdoms based on these three characteristics.
What are cell type, number of cells, and method of obtaining food?
The level that includes living and nonliving parts of an environment.
What is an ecosystem?
A kingdom made mostly of unicellular organisms that are eukaryotic and live in water.
What is Protista?
This classification level is the most specific.
What is species?
This domain contains organisms that often live in extreme environments like hot springs.
What is Archaea?
Give an example of a unicellular eukaryotic organism.
Answers vary - (protist, amoeba)
The largest level of ecological organization, made up of all Earth's ecosystems.
What is the biosphere?
These prokaryotic organisms are found almost everywhere and are important in digestion and decomposition.
What is Eubacteria?
Why are viruses not classified in any kingdom?
What is because they are not considered living organisms?