Unit 4 Study Guide

Learning Goal 1: SWBAT describe levels of biological classification and identify components of the scientific names of organisms. (5 questions)

Taxonomy is the science of identifying

species and arranging them into a

classification system.

A classification system is a way of grouping

organisms by their type.

Today, scientists use the six-kingdom

classification system, which groups species in

six kingdoms based on their characteristics.

Biggest taxonomic group (includes the most

organisms) = a kingdom. Smallest group = a

species.

The number of species classified in each

kingdom ranges from 60,000 (kingdom

Protista) to many millions (kingdom

Eubacteria), with more being discovered and

classified almost every day!

Binomial nomenclature (scientific name): Two-word name for a

species, with the genus name first and the species name second.

Scientific name for the human:

(genus) (species)

Scientific name for the dog:

(genus) (species)

The lowest taxonomic level in which humans and dogs are grouped

together is .

Unicellular Organisms

Multicellular Organisms

Learning Goal 2: SWBAT describe organisms in the six-kingdom classification system by their characteristics. (15 questions)

How do they get energy?

Cell type:

Key facts:

Cell type:

How do they get energy?

Key facts:

Cell type:

How do they get energy?

Key facts:

Prokaryotic cell =

How do they get energy?

Cell type:

Key facts:

Cell type:

How do they get energy?

Key facts:

Cell type:

How do they get energy?

Key facts:

Learning Goal 3: SWBAT describe major differences between plants and animals, including internal structures, external structures, methods of locomotion, and methods of reproduction. (10 questions).

Animals Plants

Cell structures

Have cell membrane, nucleus, vacuoles,

mitochondria, like plants

No chloroplasts

No cell wall

Have cell membrane, nucleus, large central

vacuole, like animals

Have chloroplasts

Have cell wall

Locomotion Can move on their own (are mobile) Cannot move on their own (are not mobile)

Energy

Animals are : they

eat other animals or plants to get energy.

Depend on other organisms for energy.

Plants are : they

make food from sunlight using chloroplasts.

Do not depend on other organisms for energy.

Reproduction

An animal has either male reproductive

parts (penis, etc.) or female reproductive

parts (vagina, etc.).

Only reproduce .

Most have male reproductive parts (stamen)

and female reproductive parts (pistil).

Most can reproduce or

reproduce .