Answer the Questions with Full Sentences
hPlease do not write on this worksheet use your own paper. Use the chart below to answer the following questions.
Animal / Lion / Domestic Dog / Red fox / Blue whale / Lesser Antillean iguana / Loris / Housemouse / Great white shark / Clown fish / Bengal Tiger
Domain / Eukarya / Eukarya / Eukarya / Eukarya / Eukarya / Eukarya / Eukarya / Eukarya / Eukarya / Eukarya
Kingdom / Animal / Animal / Animal / Animal / Animal / Animal / Animal / Animal / Animal / Animal
Phylum / Vertebrate / Vertebrate / Vertebrate / Vertebrate / Vertebrate / Vertebrate / Vertebrate / Vertebrate / Vertebrate / Vertebrate
Class / Mammal / Mammal / Mammal / Mammal / reptile / mammal / mammal / chondrichthys / actinopterygii / mammal
Order / Carnivora / Carnivora / carnivora / cetecea / Squamata / primate / rodentia / Elasmobranchi / peraformes / carnivora
Family / felidae / canidae / canidae / blaenopteridae / iguanaidae / Lorisidae / muridae / lamnidae / pomacentridcee / Felidae
Genus / panthera / Canis / Vulpes / Balaenoptera / iguana / Nycticebus / Mus / Carcharodon / Amphirprion / Panthera
Species / Leo / Familiaris / Vulpes / musculus / dessicatissima / bamcamis / musculus / Carcharias / Allardi / Tigris
Answer the questions with full sentences.
1. List the animals that belong to the same Class.
2. What does it mean if they are all in the same class?
3. Of the animals in the class Mammal, which two are most closely related? Explain.
4. Whales, sharks and clown fish all live in the ocean. Are the all related? Explain.
5. Based on their family classification which two animals are dogs?
6. Is the Lesser Antillean Iguana closely related to any animal in the chart? Explain.
7. Which animals is the mouse most closely related to? What level of classification do they have in common?
8. What do we know about all the animals that are mammals?
9. The blue whale and the mouse have the same species name. Are they very closely related? Explain.
10. The family of the blue whale has the name balaenoperidae. What does this name tell us about the way this whale gets its food?