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Scientific Classification Quiz

Multiple Choice
Circle the best answer to each question.
1. What is the broadest level that scientists use to classify living
things?
a. Phylum
b. Species
c. Genus
d. Kingdom
2. What
a.
b.
c.
d.

do all living things need?

Food, remote control, mobile phone and TV
Food, water, air and the right habitat
Food, water, energy and sunlight
Food, sunlight, friends and a house

3. Which of the following is NOT a feature of living things?

a. They contain the chemicals Carbon, Oxygen, Helium, and
Nitrogen
b. They respond to their surroundings
c. They have cellular organization
d. They reproduce
4. This kingdom includes trees, flowers and grasses.
a. Kingdom Protista
b. Kingdome Fungi
c. Kingdom Animalia
d. Kingdom Plantae
5. These 2 kingdoms are made up of unicellular (one celled)
organisms.
a. Kingdom Plantae & Kingdom Animalia
b. Kingdom Plantae & Kingdom Protista
c. Kingdom Monera & Kingdom Protista
d. Kingdom Fungi & Kingdom Monera
True or False
Determine if the statement is True or False. Circle T for True and F for
False.
6. Bacteria were among the first life forms on Earth.

7. All organisms breathe in oxygen to survive.

8. Scientists believe that we have discovered every living thing on planet

Earth.
T
F

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9. A clam is an example of a Vertebrate animal.

10.
11.

Protista are unicellular organisms with a nucleus.

F

F
T

What does the term classification mean?

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12.

Why do scientists like to classify living things?

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13.
What are the five (5) classes of Vertebrate animals? Give
an example for each class and one unique feature or
characteristic of each animal.

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