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Chapter 9 SG
Life Science SG
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What do scientists look at to classify living things? | Characteristics |
| What is the science of taxonomy? | The science of describing, naming, and classifying organisms |
| In the pasy, what 2 groups did scientists use to classify all living things? | Plants and animals |
| How many levels of classifications do scientists use today? | 8 levels |
| How many domains do scientists use to classify living things today? | 3 domains |
| What aid can you identify a living thing you do not know? | Branching diagram and dichotomous key. |
| What makes up a living thing's scientific name? | First word: Genus name Second word: Specific name |
| What can you guess is the best scientific name for an Asian elephant? | Elephas asian |
| What do we call simple, multicellular living things? | Protists |
| How do fungi take in and use nutrients from their surroundings? | They melt it with acids then absorb the nutrients from substances in their surroundings. |
| What must a plant be exposed to for photosynthesis to occur? | Sunlight |
| What are found where other living things can not survive? | Archaea |
| What can live in soil, water, or inside the human body? | Bacteria |
| What are small, single celled living things without a nuclei? | Prokaryotes |
| What are eukaryotic living things that have cell walls and make their own food? | Plants |
| What can respond quickly to changes in their environment? | Animals |
| What do many animals depend on plants for? | Food |
| Why do we classify organisms? | To understand the many different kinds of organisms |
| What is taxonomy? | The science of ________ is describing, naming, and classifying organisms |
| Who first wrote today's system of classification? | Carolus Linnaeus |
| Why did more than 2 kingdoms of life have to be named as scientists made new discoveries? | Because some organisms did not fit in the 2 categories |
| If 2 organisms can produce fertile offspring, what do we know about those organisms? | They must have the same level of classifications and the same species |
| What are the 8 levels of organization? | 1) Domains 2) Kingdom 3) Phylum 4) Class 5) Order 6) Family 7) Genus 8) Species |
| What are the largest, most general groups for classufying organisms? | Domains |
| Kingdoms are sorted into phyla. What are phyla sorter into? | Classes |
| Classes include one or more what? | Orders |
| Orders are seperated into what? | Families |
| What are families broken down into? | Genera |
| What are genera sorted into? | Species |
| Names created from the last 2 parts of an organism's taxonomy is called what? | Scientific name |
| What are formal names in science usually made from what 2 languages? | Latin and greek |
| What are 2 details about the Archaea, Bacteria, and Protist Kingdoms? | Archaea: live in extreme environments, are prokaryotic Bacteria: live in soil, water, and human body, prokaryotic, and can cause diseases. Protist: eukaryotic, both Heterotrophic and Autotrophic, algae |
| What are 2 details about the Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia Kingdoms? | Fungi: Does not eat food, mold, eukaryotic Plantae: uses photosynthesis, usually green, cell walls, eukaryotic Animalia: no cell walls, complex multicellular, has complex sense organs, and eukaryotic |
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