Graphics - Taxonomy

Answer true or false to the following statements.

1. ______Dogs belong to the order Felidae.
2. ______A fox belongs to the phylum Arthropoda.
3. ______Snakes belong to the phylum Reptilia.
4. ______Lions belong to the class mammalia
5. ______All arthropods belong to the Class Insecta
6. ______All rodents belong to the phylum chordata.
7. ______All amphibians belong to the class reptilia.
8. ______All primates are mammals.
9. ______The class mammalia includes dogs, cats and rats.
10. ______A lion belongs to the genus Felis.
11. ______All mammals are primates.
12. ______Insects and lobsters are arthropods.

In each set, circle the pair that is most closely related.
13. snakes & crocodiles | snakes & frogs
14. rats & cats | cats & dogs
15. insects & lobsters | insects & birds
16. lions & tigers | lions & cougars
17. foxes & rats | foxes & dogs
18. cats & dogs | cats & lions

17. List (use species name) all the animals pictured that belong in the Felidae family.

18. List all the animals pictured that belong to the Carnivora order.

Kingdom Classification Worksheet

Assign each mystery organism to a kingdom based on the description. Then figure out what the organism is called and move its picture into its row.Replace the ## signs with words from the bank provided.

Organism Names: shelf fungus, paramecium, apple tree, kelp, mushroom, E. coli, slime mold,

Venusflytrap,decomposer bacteria (Pseudomonas), cow, algae, hawk

Kingdom Names: Eubacteria, Archaebacteria, Plantae, Protista, Animalia, Fungi

Description / Kingdom / Organism Name / Picture
1 / I am a multicellular, photosynthetic, marine, organism with motile sperm cells. I grow very fast and live my adult life attached to rocks being pounded by waves. / ## / ##
2 / I am a single-celled, prokaryotic organism that lives in the large intestines of mammals like humans. I reproduce asexually by binary fission and can reproduce this way very fast / ## / ##
3 / I am a multicellularautotroph that lives on land. I grow flowers with eggs and pollen inside them, and produce seeds inside of fruits / ## / ##
4 / I am a motile unicell that lives in pondwater. My body is covered with cilia and I can swim very fast. I eat bacteria by endocytosis. / ## / ##
5 / I am both unicellular and multicellular depending on how old I am. When I am getting ready to reproduce, my cells join together to make a slippery, slithering mass that is bright orange. When mature, I dry out and release millions of spores. I eat by digesting dead leaves and absorbing the nutrients. / ## / ##
6 / I am multicellular, and my body is shaped like a thread. I live in water and turn it bright green when my population explodes. I reproduce using motile sperm. / ## / ##
7 / I am a multicellular heterotroph that eats by ingesting grass. My species have males and females, and we cannot reproduce asexually. / ## / ##
8 / I am enormous but mostly invisible because my body is hidden under soil. When sexually mature I make spores in fruitingbodies that rise above the soil and release millions of spores. I eat by digesting dead plant material in the soil as I grow through it. / ## / ##
9 / I grow inside living trees and slowly digest their wood, making it rot. I got inside the tree back when I was a spore that landed on a wound made by a weedeater. My body is a whitish, thready mass called a mycelium. I eventually kill my host tree. / ## / ##
10 / I am a fast-moving predator. My body has organs and tissues. I have excellent eyesight and my favorite food is ducks. I can fly / ## / ##
11 / I cause dead animals to really stink when I slowly digest their tissues. I am a single-celled organism with no nucleus in my cell. / ## / ##
12 / I am photosynthetic and multicellular. I make my own glucose food from sunlight, but get my fertilizer from insects I can catch in my folding leaves. / ## / ##