What does classification mean?

Sorting things into different groups

What is a classification key?

A set of questions to help sort or identify living things

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Year 6 Living things and their habitats

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Quiz for year 6 on the topic of living things and their habitats (classification). #science #year6 #classification #livingthings #livingthingsandtheirhabitats #ks2 #nationalcurriculum

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1
What are the two levels of the Linnaean system used for naming?
Genus and Species
Kingdom and Phylum
Domain and Kingdom
Species and Name
2
What is the animal kingdom divided into?
Mammals and reptiles
Vertebrates and invertebrates
Birds and animals
Humans and animals
3
What does classification mean?
Giving things a name
Looking at different animals
Sorting things into different groups
Being a scientist
4
Which one of these is a type of fungus?
Plaque on your teeth
Common Cold
Yeast
Influenza
5
Which one of these microorganisms is helpful?
Influenza
Mould
Penicillum
Athlete's foot
6
What is a classification key?
Name given to a group of animals that all have a backbone
A way of locating living things
A set of questions to help sort or identify living things
7
Which one of these is a feature of a reptile?
Feed their babies milk
Gills
Dry skin
Warm blood
8
What is a carnivore?
An animal that eats both plants and meat
An animal that only eats plants
An animals that only eats meat
9
Which of these is an amphibian?
Eel
Dolphin
Snake
Frog
10
Which of these is not a feature of a mammal?
Scaly skin
Warm blood
Give birth to live young
Hair or Fur
11
Which one of these is not one of the 5 types of vertebrate?
Mammal
Fish
Bird
Insect
12
What question could you ask to sort a worm from a snake?
Can it fly?
Does it have legs?
Does it have a backbone?
13
Any animal without a backbone?
Organism
Vertebrate
Invertebrate
Microorganism
14
What is the definition of a vertebrate?
All animals
An animal with no backbone
An animal with a backbone
A type of plant
15
Which of these is not one of the 5 kingdoms?
Fungi
Protista
Canis
Monera
16
A warm blooded vertebrate which secretes milk for its young?
Amphibian
Bird
Mammal
Reptile
17
What are microorganisms?
Very tiny animals
Living things that are harmful
Non-living things
Very tiny living things
18
Insects don't have a skeleton
TRUE
FALSE
19
Cold-blooded vertebrate whose young live in the water and adults on land?
Fish
Amphibian
Reptile
Insect
20
NOT a microorganism?
Ant
Fungus
Bacteria
Virus

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