template by bill arcuri, wcsd click once to begin jeopardy! classification of living things

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Click Once to BeginJEOPARDY!Classification of Living Things


JEOPARDY!

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VocabularySystems of

Class-ification

Levels of Class-

ification

Chang-ing

Systems

RandomFacts

Metric System


Vocabulary100

The systematic grouping of different types of organisms by

their shared traits.


What is classification?


Vocabulary200

The science of classifying and naming things.


What is taxonomy?


Vocabulary 300The first part of a binomial name

that groups together closely related species.


What is genus?


Vocabulary400

The two-part naming system used to identify species.


What is binomial nomenclature?


Vocabulary500

A series of questions, each with only two answers, that can be

used to help identify an organism’s genus and species.


What is a dichotomous key?


Systems of Classification100

The physical traits of Jaguars, ocelots, and lynx put them in this

classification.


What is the same family?



This helps people communicate about organisms.


What is binomial nomenclature?



The number of groups of organisms as described by

Aristotle and Linnaeus.


What is two (large groups)?



A feature that can be used to tell two species apart.


What is a trait?



Examples of the two types of evidence that scientists use to

classify organisms.


What are physical evidence, (bone structure, color, size,

how it obtains food) and genetic evidence (DNA)?


Levels of Classification100

The names of the taxons of our current classification system.


What is Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species?


Levels of Classification

200A group of species that share

similar traits.


What is genus?



This gradually narrows down the list of possible choices to identify

an organism.


What is a dichotomous key?



Multicellular eukaryotes that get their food by eating other

organisms.

Daily Double!!!


What are animalia?



The number of kingdoms and their names.


What is six; animalia, plantae, fungi, protista, archaea, and

bacteria?


Changing Classification Systems100

The three divisions in a classification based on different

types of cells.


What are the domains: bacteria, archaea, and eukarya.



The number of kingdoms that most scientists use to classify

living organisms.


What is six?



Giant kelp belongs to this kingdom.


What is protista?



This would change if evidence showed that an organism fits into a different genus than scientists

previously believed it was in.


What is it’s name?



Three differences between plants

and animals.


What is plants make their own food, plant cells have a cell

wall, and plants do not walk or fly?


RandomFacts100

The binomial nomenclature classification of Moby (if he could

name himself).


What is Robotacus mobilicious.


Random Facts200

The energy transfer that is made when a circuit is connected to a

battery and light bulb.


What is chemical to electrical to light and heat?


Random Facts300

Absence of this type of rock indicates that there never has

been water on the moon.


What is sedimentary rock?


Random Facts400

The strength of Gravitational pull of an object on the moon

compared to the same object on the Earth.


What is one six of Earth’s gravitational pull?


Random Facts500

The first man to walk on the moon.


Who was Neil Armstrong?


Metric system100

Kg in 1000 grams.


What is 1 Kilogram?


Metric system200

Units of density (use cm3 and grams)


What is density=mass/volume so its units are g/cm3?


Metric system300

Another name for .001 second.


What is a millisecond?


Metric system400

Kilometers in five thousand meters.


What are five kilometers?


Metric system500

The name for one billionth of a meter


What is a nanometer?


Final Jeopardy Fill in the chart below:

Domain Bacteria Archaea Eukarya

Kingdoms included

Nucleus (yes or no)

Number of cells


Click Once to BeginWhat is

Domain Bacteria Archaea Eukarya

Kingdoms included

Bacteria Archaea Protists, Plantae, Fungi, Animalia

Nucleus No Nucleus

No nucleus Nucleus

Number of cells

Unicellular Unicellular Mostly multicellular

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