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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is classification? | Organizing things into groups based on how they are alike. |
| What is a kingdom? | The largest group of classifying living things. |
| What are species? | The smallest group for classifying living things. |
| What are vertebrates? | The group of animals with a backbone. |
| What are invertebrates? | The group of animals without a backbone. |
| What does nonvascular mean? | The group of plants without roots, stems, and leaves. |
| What does vascular mean? | The group of plants with roots, stems, and leaves. |
| What are xylem? | Tissue that carries water and nutrients from the root to the rest of the plant. |
| What is phloem? | Tissue that carries food from a plant's leaves to other parts of the plant. |
| What is a spore? | A single reproductive cell that can grow into a whole new plant. |
| Which animal group has the greatest number of species, vertebrates or invertebrates and why? | Invertebrates because insects are invertebrates and there are many species of insects. |
| What is the most important difference between the plant kingdom and the animal kingdom? | Animals have to find and eat food; plants make their own food. |
| Are plants that can grow to be quite large vascular or nonvascular? | Vascular |
| Are plants that stand up tall vascular or nonvascular? | Vascular |
| Are plants that absorb water from their environment through their cells vascular or nonvascular? | Nonvascular |
| Are plants that have xylem and phloem to carry water and nutrients vascular or nonvascular? | Vascular |
| Are plants that make their own food vascular or nonvascular? | Both vascular and nonvascular |
| Are plants like trees and flowering plants vascular or nonvascular? | Vascular |
| Are plants like algae and moss vascular or nonvascular? | Nonvascular |
| Are plants that have roots, stems, and leaves vascular or nonvascular? | Vascular |
| What are the 5 kingdoms of living things? | Bacteria, animals, plants, protists, and fungi |
| What are the five groups of vertebrates? | Fish, mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians |
| Which vertebrate group breathes with gills? | Fish |
| What vertebrate group breathes with lungs? | Reptiles, birds, mammals, and amphibians |
| Which group of vertebrates are cold-blooded? | Reptiles, fish, and amphibians |
| Which group of vertebrates are warm-blooded? | Mammals and birds |
| What group of vertebrates lays eggs? | Birds, fish, amphibians, and reptiles |
| What group of vertebrates gives birth to live young? | Mammals |
| Which group of vertebrates has scales? | Fish and reptiles |
| Which group of vertebrates has feathers? | Birds |
| Which group of vertebrates has hair or fur? | Mammals |
| Which group of vertebrates has smooth skin? | Amphibians |
| What kind of plant always reproduces with spores? | Nonvascular |
| What is the difference between a deciduous plant and a coniferous plant? | Deciduous shed their leaves every year and coniferous do not shed their leaves every year (they are pine trees). |