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Grouping Living Things
The Kingdoms of Life
Adaptations
Adaptations and Change
100
The largest category in the classification system.
What is Kingdom?
100
In our book there are this many Kingdoms.
What is 6?
100
These are features that make an organism well suited to its surroundings.
What are adaptations?
100
This long-necked animal is not adapted to life in Nova Scotia.
What is a giraffe?
200
Canis Lupus is an example of this.
What is scientific name?
200
Mammals and Birds are 2 examples from this phylum in the animal kingdom.
What is Chordata?
200
The long, pointed front teeth of a cat are examples of this kind of adaptation.
What is a physical adaptation?
200
This large land region has its own distinct climate, plants, soil and animals.
What is a biome?
300
Tail length, ear tufts and coat are classification keys for this animal.
What is a cat?
300
Wildflowers, grasses and trees belong to this kingdom.
What is the plant kingdom?
300
This is an organism's ability to blend into its surroundings.
What is camouflage?
300
Nova Scotia belongs in this biome.
What is Temperate Forest?
400
This type of classification key has 2 choices for each step.
What is a dichotomous key?
400
This is the term we use to describe an animal that does not have a backbone.
What is an invertebrate?
400
This physical adaptation allows an organism to look like something else.
What is mimicry?
400
Newfoundland belongs in this biome.
What is Boreal Forest?
500
The 2 categories that make up scientific names.
What are genus and species?
500
Spiders, insects, lobster and crab are examples of this type of invertebrate.
What is an arthropod?
500
The movement of animals from one region to another in response to a change in season.
What is migration?
500
All the members of a species died out.
What is extinct(ion)?