Classification Webquest Environmental Science
Classification Assignment
This assignment is designed to introduce/review taxonomic classification of living
organisms.
Use [Link] 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 [Link] 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 [Link] to find the one difference in the
classification level of plants and animals.
13. Use [Link] to identify the 4
classification systems for plants.
Use [Link] 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 [Link] 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
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Answer the following questions:
23. How many Kingdoms are there? ____________
24. List them:
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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?
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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?
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34. Where do they like to live?
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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?
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41. Protists:
> Draw Example
42. List 3 Facts about this Kingdom:
1.
2.
3.
43. Do you think Protists have a nucleus? _______________