Grade 6 - Biodiversity

The largest group of living things on Earth is ____________________.

Plants are different from animals because they...

Who was the first person to study animals and plants?

Which animal group are not mammals?

Look at the food chain below. Which organism in a secondary consumer?

Sorting things according to their likenesses is called ____________________.

Most __________ are usually parasites and can cause disease or death.

Monerans are _________-celled organisms.

The animal kingdom is broken into two main subgroups:

There are _____ kingdoms.

The cells in a plant contain a green substance called __________.

What is not an example of classification?

What language is used to give scientific names to plants and animals?

Which scientist first came up with an orderly way to classify living things?

What is the term for a community of living and non-living things that is self-sustaining?

Mushrooms, yeast, toadstools and moulds are part of the __________ kingdom.

____________________ are living things that make their own food through photosynthesis

When animal numbers are declining and risk disappearing altogether.

Consumers that eat only plants.

This term means using a renewable resource faster than it can replenish itself.

__________ break down dead animal and plant remains.

When a plant or animal species no longer exists.

Which organism is not an invasive species in southern Ontario?

The largest ecosystem on earth is...

A foreign species that disrupts the balance in an ecosystem is called an ____________________.

Animals with backbones

Not a major threat to biodiversity.

____________________ is the variety of living things that live together in an ecosystem.

Which group are vertebrates?

The system that scientists used to classify plants and animals into groups.