Name:______Period:______

Taxonomy/Kingdom Comparison Sheet

Use your Taxonomy with comparisons colored chart to complete the following questions.

  1. List the 6 kingdoms

______,______,______,______,

______,______,

  1. Archaebacteria are some of the most primitive life forms on Earth and live in some of the most harsh and extreme environments on the planet. Eubacteria are commonly encounteredeverywhere in everyday life. Which of the following examples is paired correctly from the chart?

Name:______Period:______

a)Eubacteria-Halophile

b)Archaebacteria-Amoeba

c)Eubacteria-E.coli

d)Archaebacteria-Bacilli

Name:______Period:______

  1. A scientist observes a bacteria cell and needs to determine if it belongs to the kingdom Archaebacteria or Eubacteria. He learns that the cell is unicellular, asexual, cell wall has peptidoglycan, and can see the cell moving under the microscope using a flagella. What kingdom can the scientist classify the bacteria as?

Name:______Period:______

a)Archaebacteria

b)Eubacteria

c)Fungi

d)Plantae

Name:______Period:______

  1. Define

a)Sessile:______

  1. Define

a)Flagella:______

b)Cilia (cilium):______

c)Pseudopodia:______

  1. Based on flagella, cilia, and pseudopodia definitions from above, use the diagram to determine which modes of locomotion are included.

a)Cilia only

b)Cilia, and flagella only

c)Flagella, Cilia, and Pseudopodia

d)Flagella only

  1. All of the following kingdoms use cilia, flagella, or pseudopodia as a mode of movement except…

Name:______Period:______

a)Protists

b)Fungi

c)Animalia

d)Eubacteria

Name:______Period:______

  1. Circle the kingdoms that are prokaryotic?

Animalia Archaebacteria Plantae Eubacteria Protists Fungi

  1. Circle the kingdoms that are eukaryotic?

Animalia Archaebacteria Plantae Eubacteria Protists Fungi

  1. Prokaryotic cells are simple compared to complex eukaryotic cells. Thus they are able to divide quicker within an hour. What kingdoms would have thisquicker dividing advantage?

Name:______Period:______

a)Animalia, Plantae and Fungi

b)Fungi and Plantae

c)Archaebacteria and Eubacteria

d)Eubacteria, Protists and Fungi

Name:______Period:______

  1. Define

a)Binary Fission:______

  1. Explain the difference between spores and seeds (can be found in the glossary of the textbook)?

a)Spores:______

b)Seeds:______

  1. Define

a)Unicellular:______

b)Multicellular:______

  1. Circle the kingdoms that include organisms that make their own food?

Animalia Archaebacteria Plantae Eubacteria Protists Fungi

  1. What statement is true of kingdoms Plantae and Fungi?

a)Both kingdoms contain chitin in their cell walls.

b)Both fungi and plantae make their own food.

c)The two kingdoms include simple cells that have no nucleus.

d)The two kingdoms include sessile organisms.

  1. A scientist observes an organism under a microscope and determines the following:

Multicellular
Asexual
Decomposer
Pseudopodia

What kingdom should the scientist classify the organism under based on the information?

Name:______Period:______

a)Animalia

b)Protists

c)Fungi

d)Plantae

Name:______Period:______

  1. The only kingdom that includes consumers and has organisms that uses muscles as a mode of movement is

Name:______Period:______

a)Animalia

b)Plantae

c)Archaebacteria

d)Fungi

  1. A student went on a field trip to a nature preserve. The student recorded her observations in a chart.

Organism 1 / Multicellular, Asexual, Decomposer
Organism 2 / Multicellular, Sexual, Producer
Organism 3 / Multicellular, Asexual, Producer
Organism 4 / Multicellular, Sexual, Consumer

Which two organisms can be classified in the same kingdom based on the observations of the student from the chart?

Name:______Period:______

a)Organism 1 and 2

b)Organism 2 and 3

c)Organism 2 and 4

d)Organism 1 and 3

  1. Which characteristic of organisms are most commonly used to place them in a specific kingdom in the six- kingdom taxonomy system?

a)Color, cell type/number, habitat

b)Cell type/number, type of nutrition, shape

c)Reproduction, cell type/number, type of movement

d) Size, behavior, reproduction

  1. A student was given a picture of an unknown organism, information about the organism, and asked to put the organism in its correct taxonomic kingdom. Which kingdom does this organism belong to?

Unknown Organism / Eukaryotic, multicellular, heterotroph, cell wall made with chitin, decomposer, sessile

a)Protists

b)Animalia

c)Plantae

d)Fungi