LS.5 Classification

1. Organisms are classified in a seven-tiered hierarchical system. Put the catagories in order from the broadest to the narrowest:

2. The first letter of each word in the following phrase will help you remember the classification order -

3. Into how many kingdoms do biologists divide living things?

4. Humans are members of the kingdom -

5. The kingdom Animalia is further divided into 30 ____ including Chordates, Mollusks, Arthropods, etc.

6. Cats, spiders and sponges belong to the kingdom -

7. The newer six Kingdom classification method divides the bacteria into these two Kingdoms:

8. All organisms belong to one of the following six Kingdoms:

9. Which kingdoms include unicellular organisms?

10. ALL organisms in this kingdom(s) are capable of photosynthesis-

11. Animals are classified into about 30 phyla. Humans, birds, fish and lizards are in the phylum:

12. Snails, slugs, clams, and squid are members of the ____ Kingdom and the ____ Phylum.

13. Crabs, lobsters, spiders, insects, ticks have legs with many joints. They are part of the Animal Kingdom and the ____ Phylum.

14. Jellyfish, coral, sea anemone and many other organisms with radial symmetry are members of the _____ phylum.

15. Earthworms, leeches and many other multi-segmented organisms belong to the _____ phylum.

16. Mushrooms, molds and other members of the ____ kingdom are decomposers that absorb their food from their surroundings.

17. In binomial nomenclature, the two-word scientific naming system for organisms, humans are Homo sapiens. Homo (man) is the human ____, sapien (wise) is the human ____ .

18. The scientific name for the fruit fly is Drosophila melanogaster. Drosophila is the fly's -

19. All organisms ofthe same species -

20. A classification system that names organisms genus and species is -