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Classification and Six Kingdoms Study Guide
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Comparing the 6 kingdoms
Kingdom
Archaebacteria
Eubacteria
Protists
Fungi
Plant
Animal
# of
cells
Type of
cells
Obtaining
food
1. What are the 6 kingdoms of living things?
2. What are the levels of classification from broadest to most specific group?
3. What is binomial nomenclature?
4. What is the kingdom for an organism that is warm-blooded and has fur, a
mammary glands, and gives live birth?
5. How does an animal obtain the energy needed for activities?
6. What does the backbone protect in a vertebrate?
backbone,
7. What are the characteristics of all animals?
8. What tool do scientists use to classify organisms?
9. How are external and internal fertilization different?
10. What are the characteristics of all plants?
11. In what plant structure does photosynthesis occur?
In what cell structure within the plant does photosynthesis occur?
12. What is a plant’s response to a stimulus called?
13. What are the characteristics of all fungi?
14. How do most fungi reproduce?
15. What is the role of decomposers?
16. What is budding?
17. Why are viruses considered nonliving?
18. What kingdom of organisms would you expect to find in the hot springs or thermal ocean vents?
19. How are archaebacteria and eubacteria different from organisms in all the other kingdoms?
20. How do viruses multiply?
21. What is the outer most layer of bacterial and plant cells?
22. Like fungi, bacteria are decomposers. How do decomposers help the environment?
23. Fungus- like protists have many characteristics like fungi, however there is one major
difference. What is it?
24. What are the characteristics of all protists?
25. Create a dichotomous key for cheerios, oatmeal, cocoa puffs, and raisin bran.