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Classification Webquest
Part A: INTRODUCTION to TAXONOMY
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1.How is the Linnaean system of classification used in science?
2.Scientists have classified over ______million species and estimate that there are over ______many species that have not yet been discovered. The most (2/3) of all named species are ______.
3.Why should we learn about the diversity of life?
HISTORY OF CLASSIFICATION
4.What is Taxonomy?
5.Taxonomy bases classification on what?
6.What was not considered in early taxonomic classifications?
7.Carolus Linnaeus created the Linnaean System of classification using 2 Latin names ______and ______to designate each organism.
8.What is the name of the system described in #7?
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9.What is another name for the classification system of classifying living things?
10.What are the eight divisions in this system in order from the most general to the most broad?
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11.Name the 6 kingdoms agreed upon by most scientists.
12.How are species identified?
13.Into which kingdom(s) are bacteria placed?
14.Which kingdom could be referred to as little creatures swimming around in a drop of water?
15.Which one of these kingdoms do not move or contain chlorophyll and therefore cannot make their own food.
16.Which kingdom is many celled and contains chlorophyll which enable them to make their own food?
17.Use a web search and identify the classification names of the Rhesus monkey from kingdom through species.
18.Use the web to search for the name of the phylum a lion would belong to.
19.Use a web search to identify what kingdom a haircap moss is found in and WHY.
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20.Into what two major phyla(plural for phylum) are animals classified?
21.Which class of animals is cold-blooded, breathe with lungs, have scales, and lay eggs?
22.Which class of animals are the largest and the most diverse of all animals and segmented bodies supported by an exoskeleton?
23.What classes of animals are warm blooded?
24.Differentiate between warm-blooded and cold-blooded.
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25.Identify the classification of humans from domain through species. (Give the names of all the levels from domain through species).
26.How is the classification of man different than the classification of the Rhesus Monkey you answered in question #9?