1. Classification Jeopardy
Old School Ways
Kingdoms & More
Hodgepodge
Key, Key, Who Has The Key?
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3. A-100
ANSWER: 18th century Swedish botanist who developed the classification system we still use today.
QUESTION: Who is CAROLUS LINNAEUS.

4. A-200 ANSWER: the two main parts to a scientific name.
QUESTION: What are GENUS & SPECIES.

5. A-300
ANSWER: name of the system where every organism is given two names.
QUESTION: What is BINOMEAL NOMENCLATURE.

6. A-400 ANSWER: the two main kingdoms that Linnaeus recognized.
QUESTION: What are PLANTAE & ANIMALIA.

7. A-500
ANSWER: in order from largest to smallest, the seven levels of classification.
QUESTION: What are
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species

8. B-100 ANSWER: This taxon is equivalent to phyla in animals.
HINT: Plants…..
QUESTION: What is Division

9. B-200 ANSWER: the six kingdoms recognized today. QUESTION: What are
Animal
Plant
Fungi
Protists
Archaebacteria
Eubacteria

10. B-300
ANSWER: organisms living in deep thermal ocean vents and hot springs would be classified as these.
QUESTION: What are Archaeabacteria

11. B-400 ANSWER: classification level between phylum and order.
QUESTION: What is CLASS.

12. B-500
ANSWER: these 2 things must be done properly when writing a scientific name.
QUESTION: What is
Capitalize the Genus name
All lower case letters in the Species name.

13. C-100
ANSWER: The grouping of organisms based on similarities is called this.
QUESTION: What is Classification.

14. C-200 ANSWER: Organisms found in Kingdom Eubacteria are called?
QUESTION: What is BACTERIA.

15. C-300
ANSWER: organisms that are multicellular, autotrophic, eukaryotic, belong to this kingdom.
HINT: have chloroplasts
QUESTION: What is PLANTAE.

16. C-400
ANSWER: “taxonomic garbage can” is the nickname for this kingdom of organisms.
QUESTION: What is PROTISTS.

17. C-500 ANSWER: The evolutionary history of a species is called this.
QUESTION: What is Phylogeny.

18. D-100
ANSWER: Name for a series of steps, or choices to identify an unknown organism.
QUESTION: What is a DICHOTOMOUS KEY.

19. D-200 ANSWER: The science of classifying organisms
QUESTION: What is TAXONOMY.

20. D-300 ANSWER: “Dichotomous” means to do this.
QUESTION: What is DIVIDE or BRANCH INTO TWO (2).

21. D-400
ANSWER: The first thing you would do when creating a dichotomous key.
QUESTION: What is divide the organisms into two groups?

22. D-500
ANSWER: When identifying an organism (such as an insect), other than looking at the physical characteristics, knowing these 2 things will be very helpful!
QUESTION: What is knowing the
Cell Structure
How it gets its energy

23. E-100 ANSWER: members of this kingdom are photosynthetic autotrophs.
QUESTION: What is PLANTAE.

24. E-200
ANSWER: members of this kingdom obtain nutrients from dead and decaying matter.
QUESTION: What are FUNGI.

25. E-300 ANSWER: This language is used for scientific names.
QUESTION: What is LATIN

26. E-400
ANSWER: members of this kingdom share characteristics of plants, animals and fungi.
QUESTION: What is PROTISTA.

27. E-500
ANSWER: all organisms in the domain Eukarya all have this in common.
QUESTION: What is a NUCLEUS.

28. FINAL JEOPARDY
ANSWER: shows evolutionary interrelationships between various species.
QUESTION: What is a PHYLOGENETIC TREE or CLADOGRAM.