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Creating and Using Classification Keys

The document outlines the objective of using classification keys to group and identify various living things. It explains how to create a classification key through a series of questions that become increasingly specific. The document provides examples of questions to help sort living organisms into categories.

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Creating and Using Classification Keys

The document outlines the objective of using classification keys to group and identify various living things. It explains how to create a classification key through a series of questions that become increasingly specific. The document provides examples of questions to help sort living organisms into categories.

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Objective:

To use a classification key to group living


things.

•To identify a variety of living things.

•To create a classification key.


Classification Keys

Classification keys are a way of identifying


living things through a series of questions.

For example:
‘Does it have wings?’
The first question is always quite general
because it needs to help sort the living things
you are classifying.
The questions will gradually get more specific
as they separate living things that are more
similar.
Is it a
vertebrate?

No Yes

Does it have
feathers?

No Yes
Classification Keys
You are going to create a classification key to sort your living things.
Look carefully at these living things. What question could you ask to split them
into two groups?
Classification Keys
Is it an animal?

yes no

Is it a vertebrate?
yes no

Choose one set of living things.


What question could you ask to split these living things into
two groups?
Classification Keys
Does it have feathers?

yes no

Does it have webbed


feet?
yes no

When you reach the end of the key, move on to the next group of
living things. Choose a question that lets you sort them into two sets
as before.
Classification Keys
Does it have feathers?

yes no

Does it have webbed Does it lay eggs?


feet?
yes no yes no
THE END

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