Wow: The Platypus
Year 7 & 8 TOC Wow science The platypus puzzle When people first discovered the platypus they were very confused! It didn’t conform with known taxonomies and understanding of what animals should be. It looked like it was a strange fusion of different animals. It was so strange in fact, that scientists thought it was […]
Questions: Classes of Vertebrates
Year 7 & 8 Topics Classification Questions Classes of Vertebrates MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS ACTIVITY What features do the animals in each class have? Drag and drop the words into to the correct bins. SHORT ANSWERS What are the main characteristics of Mammals? How do monotremes challenge the normal assumptions of mammals? What class is a […]
Classes of Vertebrates
Year 7 & 8 Topics Classification Classes of vertebrates Once an organism is categorised into a phylum, we can further group them into a class. This becomes more specifies, and the animals in a class have more in common than those in a phylum. In this section, we’ll focus on classes in the phylum Chordata, […]
Questions: Categorising Animals
Year 7 & 8 Topics Classification Questions Categorising Animals MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS ACTIVITY Look at the animals below. Are they vertebrates or invertebrates? SHORT ANSWERS Give 2 example of animals from phylum Molluscs not on the previous page. What features make them hit into this phylum? Give 3 examples of on animals with exoskeletons and […]
Categorising Animals
Year 7 & 8 Topics Classification Categorising Animals Mathematician, computer science expert and animal rights advocate Brian Tomasik estimates the total number of individual animals on the earth to be approximately 20,000,121,091,000,000,000. That is, 20 quintillion, or 20 billion billion! In terms of animal species, while estimated vary widely, there are an estimated 1 to […]
Questions: 5 Kingdoms of classification
Year 7 & 8 Topics Classification Keys Questions 5 Kingdom of classification MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS ACTIVITY Match the cards below. SHORT ANSWERS What are the 5 kingdoms? Why can’t bacteria fit into the kingdom Protista? Name an organism that is unicellular. State which kingdom it belongs too and why. How did the Microscope help with […]
5 Kingdoms of classification
Year 7 & 8 Topics Classification 5 Kingdoms of classification The world contains roughly 8.7 million species! Most of which we haven’t even discovered yet! In fact only 14% of the world’s species have yet been identified and only 9% of those in the oceans. With so many organisms in existence we need some way […]
Questions: Types of classification keys
Year 7 & 8 Topics Classification Keys Questions Types of classification keys MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS SHORT ANSWERS What is a dichotomous chart? What does is mean to classify something? Which of the following descriptions are good to help classify frogs into a dichotomous key? Give a reason why or why not, for each description. It […]
Types of classification keys
Year 7 & 8 Topics Classification keys Types of classification keys Did you know, that scientists estimate that there are 8.7 million animal species in this world, and most of them still are not even discovered! You can read more here. With all the different species in the world, we need a method of identifying […]
Questions: Is it living, non-living or dead?
Year 7 & 8 Topics Classification Questions Is it living, non-living or dead? MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS ACTIVITY The image below is a 360 photo sphere. Click and drag the mouse to look around the photo. Write down all the living and non-living things you see in the photo. SHORT ANSWERS What are the 7 characteristics […]
