Taxonomy Unit Test

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Match each description with the correct Kingdom.

1) ______ Makes food using sunlight, a) Bacteria
multicellular, and eukaryotic b) Fungi
2) ______ Eats other organisms, multicellular,
c) Protista
and eukaryotic
d) Archaea
3) ______ Unicellular eukaryotes
e) Plantae
4) ______ Unicellular prokaryotes, much
ab) Animalia
smaller than eukaryotes

5) ______ Absorbs material for food,
multicellular, and eukaryotic
6) ______ Unicellular prokaryotes, can survive
extreme environments

Use the following chart to answer questions 7-11:

Characteristic Organism I Organism II Organism III Organism IV
Cell Wall Absent Present Present Present
Nucleus Present Absent Present Present
Nutrition
Eats other
organisms
Varies
Uses sunlight to
make food
Absorbs materials

7) Which organisms belong to domain Eukarya?
a) I, III and IV b) I, II, and III c) I, II, and IV

8) Which organisms are most likely to belong in Kingdom Fungi?
a) I only b) III only c) IV only

9) Which organisms will have chloroplasts?
a) I only b) III only c) IV only

10) Which organisms are most likely to belong to Kingdom Animalia?
a) I only b) III only c) IV only

11) Which organisms are most likely to belong to Domain Bacteria?
a) I only b) II only c) I and II

Match each description with the correct term.

12) ______ Scientific name for grumpy cat a) Homo sapiens
13) ______ System for scientific naming b) Taxonomy
14) ______ Scientific name for humans c) Felis catus
15) ______ Science of naming things d) Binomial Nomenclature
16) ______ Developed the first system for all e) Linnaeus
living things ab) Aristotle
17) ______ Developed the system for scientific
naming





Use the following chart to answer questions 18-22:















18) What is the scientific name of the alpaca?
a) Artiodactyla vicugna b) Camelidae Vicugna c) Vicugna pacos

19) Which of the following organisms will have the most shared characteristics (share the most
number of groups)?

I. Alpaca II. Camel III. Lama IV. Sheep

a) I and IV b) II and III c) I, II, and III

20) What is the smallest group (taxon) to include all of the organisms listed?
a) Class b) Order c) Family

21) These organisms belong to which Kingdom?
a) Bacteria b) Animalia c) Protista

22) What is the scientific name of the sheep?
a) Artiodactyla ovis b) Ovis aries c) Mammalia Artiodactyla
Bovidae

Choose the correct Domain that each Kingdom belongs to:

a) Archaea b) Bacteria c) Eukarya

23) Archaea
24) Animalia
25) Bacteria
26) Fungi
27) Plantae
28) Protista