BIODIVERSITY REVIEW: Chapters 1, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 in the Science Textbook
1)Use your text and/or Kingdoms Booklet to fill in the following table:
Eubacteria / Archae-bacteria / Protista / Fungi / Plantae / AnimaliaProkaryote/
Eukaryote
Single or Multi Celled
Auto- or
Heterotroph
Sexual or Asexual
2) What are the six ‘Characteristics of Life’ as listed in Chapter 1 Lesson 1?
3) Only two of the six Kingdoms are Prokaryotic. Which two?
4) What is the major distinction between Eubacteria and Archaebacteria?
5) What is the difference between biotic and abiotic?
6) Are viruses biotic or abiotic?
7) What is the medical treatment of choice concerning viruses?
8) What medical treatment do we use for bacterial infections?
9) Why will antibiotics not work on viruses? (Consider “anti” and “bio” as word parts.)
10) Give an example of asexual reproduction:
11) How many parents are involved in asexual reproduction?
12) The ‘alien spacecraft’ is a common ______shape.
13) Draw the 3 common bacterial shapes:
14) ______are the most plentiful organisms on Earth. They are virtually everywhere.
15) Draw a picture of a prokaryote:
What makes it different from a eukaryote?
16) What separates organisms in the Kingdom Protista from organisms in the other Kingdoms?
17) How do we prevent the spread of disease?
18) Give three examples of how protistscan have movement:
19) What is the difference between autotrophs and heterotrophs?
20) To what does ‘biodiversity’ refer? (Hint: ‘bio’ means life or living.)
21) What is binomial nomenclature?
22) According to the cladogram below, what characteristic do all the organisms have that the lamprey and shark do not have?
23) What is the purpose of pollen?
24) Give two examples of how bacteria are beneficial:
25) Scientific classification groups organisms by Domain
similar characteristics. The Domains are the
largest categories with the following categories
becoming more and more specific. Complete the
diagram to show these categories:
26) Correctly write the scientific name for humans
in the space below. (Hint: Be sure to capitalize/italicize correctly.)
homo sapiens =