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Exercise This is a locked Word document. You should only be able to enter information into the grey areas. Make sure you use the Save as function to keep your work and then email the saved document to your teacher as an attachment. Living things Name Teacher Exercise – Animal classification Aristotle studied structural features of many living things. He used some features – movement, method of feeding and growth patterns – to divide living things. The table below gives information about two of these features. Remember, Aristotle didn't know about photosynthesis. Living things Movement Method of feeding land plants stay in one place feed from soil mushrooms stay in one place feed from soil seaweed stay in one place or carried by water feed from water mould stay in one place or move very slowly feed from dead organisms animals most move from place to place feed from dead organisms Aristotle divided the organisms into two groups called kingdoms. More about classifying animals 12/20 1 1 2 Use Aristotle's information in the previous table to divide land plants, mushrooms, seaweed, mould and animals into the two kingdoms below. Plant kingdom Animal kingdom Choose one (if appropriate) Choose one (if appropriate) Choose one (if appropriate) Choose one (if appropriate) Choose one (if appropriate) Choose one (if appropriate) Choose one (if appropriate) Choose one (if appropriate) Choose one (if appropriate) Choose one (if appropriate) Did you find any organism(s) difficult to classify into only one kingdom? Explain. (Six lines) 3 Aristotle's classification of living things into a plant kingdom and an animal kingdom was important in the development of modern biology. Why? (Six lines) 4 Biologists today do not use Aristotle's two kingdoms. Why do you think his classification system has been rejected? (Eight lines) 2 Living things 12/20