NAME ______HOMEROOM ______DATE ______
PARENT SIGNATURE & DATE (BONUS PTS.) ______
CLASSIFYING LIVING THINGS STUDY GUIDE
Directions: Fill in the blanks with the correct word or words or circle the box containing the correct answer to each
question. Feel free to use your science textbook to help you (Pages 48-85).
VOCABULARY
organism / protist / vertebratesmicroscopic / vascular / nonvascular
bacteria / fungi / invertebrates
1. ______An animal with a backbone
2. ______Having tubes or channels
3. ______Organisms that can't make food and can't move about. They grow on
plant materials and absorb food from them.
4. ______A living thing
5. ______One of the kingdoms of living things that can be one-celled. Algae and
protozoans are examples of them.
6. ______Without tubes or channels
7. ______Too small to be seen with the eyes alone
8. ______An animal without a backbone
9. ______The kingdom of one-celled living things that lack nuclei. They are
probably the oldest living organisms. They are the most numerous
organisms on Earth.
SCIENCE CONCEPTS AND UNDERSTANDING
10. The building blocks of life are ______.
11. ______controls all the functions of a cell.
12. Humans are classified as ______and ______.
13. The cells of bacteria are different from all other cells in that they ______
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14. A TRUE statement about nonvascular plants is ______
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15. Arthropods have an ______.
16. Flowering plants do NOT make ______.
17. The best organism to plant on a hillside to stop soil from washing away are ______.
18. List two ways in which bacteria are helpful.
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19. What kind of plant is shown in the picture to the right?
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20. Why are the plants in the pictures below classified as nonvascular?
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21. What do all the following creatures have in common?
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22. What kind of cell does the picture to the right show?
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23. What does the circle graph show?
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SCIENCE OPEN RESPONSE
What In the World Is It?
24. Suppose you are walking in a forest and you find something that you do not really know what it
is.
A. Explain how you would know if it is living or nonliving.
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B. Suppose you decide it is a living organism. Explain how you would know if it was a plant or
an animal.
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C. Suppose you decide that it is an animal. Explain how you would know if it was a vertebrate or
an invertebrate.
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