Kingdoms and animal groups — final check

1. state

State the main features used to place an organism in (a) the animal kingdom and (b) the plant kingdom.

(a) Animal kingdom

(b) Plant kingdom

2. describe

A frog and a lizard both have four legs and live partly on land. Describe two features you could use to tell a reptile from an amphibian.

3. identify

Use the features given to place each animal in its vertebrate group.

Write the number of the matching option.

1. Mammals
2. Birds
3. Reptiles
4. Amphibians
5. Fish

• Salamander: smooth, moist skin with no scales; lays soft eggs in a pond: ______
• Shark: rough skin of tiny scales, fins; breathes with gills: ______
• Hedgehog: a coat of spines, which are stiff hairs, and fur on its belly; feeds its young on milk: ______
• Tortoise: dry skin with scales and a bony shell; breathes air; lays its eggs in a hole on land: ______
• Ostrich: feathers, a beak and small wings it cannot fly with; lays eggs with hard shells: ______

4. state

State three features shared by all arthropods.

5. identify / explain

A rock-pool animal has a hard shell, two pairs of antennae and five pairs of legs. Name its group of arthropods and explain your choice.

6. identify

Use the features given to place each arthropod in its group.

Write the number of the matching option.

1. Insects
2. Arachnids
3. Crustaceans
4. Myriapods

• Tarantula: a large hairy body in two parts; four pairs of legs; no antennae: ______
• Dragonfly: head, thorax and a long abdomen; three pairs of legs; one pair of short antennae; two pairs of wings: ______
• Millipede: a long body of many segments with legs on each; one pair of short antennae: ______
• Shrimp: a hard, see-through outer skeleton; two pairs of long antennae; five pairs of walking legs: ______

7. state

Supplement. State the main features used to place an organism in the fungus kingdom.

8. state

Supplement. State two differences between monocotyledons and dicotyledons.

9. state / explain

Supplement. Every organism in the five kingdoms is made of one or more cells. State the two features of a virus, and use them to explain why viruses are not placed in any kingdom.

10. identify

Supplement. Use the features given to place each organism in its kingdom or plant group.

Write the number of the matching option.

1. Fungi
2. Protoctists
3. Prokaryotes
4. Ferns
5. Monocotyledons
6. Dicotyledons

• Amoeba: a single cell with a nucleus, no cell wall and no chloroplasts; takes in smaller organisms: ______
• Yeast: a single cell with a nucleus and a cell wall not made of cellulose; no chloroplasts; absorbs dissolved sugar: ______
• Soil bacterium: a single cell with no nucleus; a loop of DNA in its cytoplasm; a cell wall: ______
• Bracken: large divided fronds; no flowers; brown spore cases under the fronds: ______
• Sunflower: flowers that make seeds; two cotyledons in each seed; broad leaves with a branching network of veins: ______
• Onion: flowers that make seeds; one cotyledon in each seed; long, narrow leaves with parallel veins: ______