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This document provides instructions for an assignment on biological classification. Students are directed to various websites to answer questions that will help them learn about: - The taxonomic classification system and its seven main categories from most specific to most general. - The six kingdoms of life: Archaebacteria, Eubacteria, Protists, Fungi, Plants, and Animals. - Characteristics used to identify species and classify organisms into the appropriate kingdoms. - Examples of classification of specific organisms like humans, monkeys, lions, and mosses from kingdom down to species. - Differences between modern classification systems and older ones, as well as differences between plant and animal classification levels.

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Classification Webquest

This document provides instructions for an assignment on biological classification. Students are directed to various websites to answer questions that will help them learn about: - The taxonomic classification system and its seven main categories from most specific to most general. - The six kingdoms of life: Archaebacteria, Eubacteria, Protists, Fungi, Plants, and Animals. - Characteristics used to identify species and classify organisms into the appropriate kingdoms. - Examples of classification of specific organisms like humans, monkeys, lions, and mosses from kingdom down to species. - Differences between modern classification systems and older ones, as well as differences between plant and animal classification levels.

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Classification Webquest Environmental Science

Classification Assignment
This assignment is designed to introduce/review taxonomic classification of living
organisms.

Use http://www.infoplease.com to answer the following:

1. What is another name for the classification system of classifying living things?

2. What are the seven divisions in this system in order from the most specific to the
most general?

Use http://www.ric.edu/ptiskus/Six_Kingdoms/Index.htm to answer the following:

3. Name the 6 kingdoms agreed upon by most scientists.

4. How are species identified?

5. Into which kingdom(s) are bacteria placed?

6. Which kingdom could be referred to as little creatures swimming around in a drop


of water?

7. Which one of these kingdoms do not move or contain chlorophyll and therefore
cannot make their own food.

8. Which kingdom is many celled and contains chlorophyll which enable them to
make their own food?

9. Use a web search and identify the classification names of the Rhesus monkey
from kingdom through species.
10. Use the web to search for the name of the phylum a lion would belong to.

11. Use a web search (Google, Bing) to identify what kingdom a haircap moss is
found in.

12. Use http://www.backyardnature.net/ to find the one difference in the


classification level of plants and animals.

13. Use http://www.perspective.com/nature/plantae/index.html to identify the 4


classification systems for plants.

Use http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0768513.html to answer the following:

14. Into what two major phyla(plural for phylum) are animals classified?

15. Which class of animals are cold-blooded, breathe with lungs, have scales, and lay
eggs?

16. Which class of animals are the largest and the most diverse of all animals and
segmented bodies supported by an exoskeleton?

17. What classes of animals are warm blooded?

18. Differentiate between warm-blooded and cold-blooded.

Do a web search to answer the following:

19. Identify the classification of humans from kingdom through species.


(Give the names of all the levels from kingdom through species).
20. How is the classification of man different than the classification of the Rhesus
Monkey you answered in question #9?

Use http://www.biology.iupui.edu/biocourses/N100/2k23domain.html to answer the


following questions:

21. Name the 3 domains of modern classification. Beside each domain, list the
kingdoms that are included.

22. How does modern classification differ from previous classification systems?

Part 2
http://www.ric.edu/faculty/ptiskus/Six_Kingdoms/Index.htm
Answer the following questions:
23. How many Kingdoms are there? ____________
24. List them:
___________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__
25. How are organisms placed in their Kingdoms: (There are 3 reasons listed)
a.

b.

c.

26. Plant Kingdom:                                                                                                        
> Draw Example
27. List 3 Facts about this Kingdom:
1.

2.

3.

28. What are autotrophs?


______________________________________________________

29. Animal Kingdom:                                                                                            
> Draw Example

30. List 3 Facts about this Kingdom:


1.

2.

3.

31. What is the scientific name of the Tiger shown? _________________

32. Archaebacteria:                                                                                                
Draw Example

33. How did scientists find these bacteria?


_____________________________________
34. Where do they like to live?
__________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________
35. Eubacteria:                                                                                                         
> Draw Example

36. List 3 Facts about this Kingdom:


1.

2.

3.

37. How many cells big are Eubacteria? _______________

38. Fungi:                                                                                                  
        > Draw Example

39. List 3 Facts about this Kingdom:


1.

2.

3.

40. How are Fungi different from Plants?


________________________________________

41. Protists:                                                                                                            
> Draw Example
42. List 3 Facts about this Kingdom:
1.

2.

3.

43. Do you think Protists have a nucleus? _______________

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