Questions: Categorising Plants
Year 7 & 8 Topics Classification Questions Categorising plants MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS SHORT ANSWERS Using the information you’ve just learnt, create a dichotomous key of the following plants. Roses Liverworts Ferns Campanulales Which group do the following plants belong to? Fruit tree Bird nest fern Rose bush Pine tree Grass Maidenhair fern What is a […]
Questions: What are species?
Year 7 & 8 Topics Classification Questions What are species MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS SHORT ANSWERS Define the term Species. What happens when organisms from one species breed with other species? Imagine that you are a famous biologist working in the field, searching for a new species. As you search you stumbled on one of the […]
Questions: Scientific Names and Linnaean Taxonomy
Year 7 & 8 Topics Classification Questions Scientific Names and Linnaean Taxonomy MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS ACTIVITY Sort out the different levels below. SHORT ANSWERS Look at the images of the foxes. Are these all of the same species or different? Explain why you think this. What genus do these foxes belong too? Select 5 different […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Questions: An Introduction To Classification
Year 7 & 8 Topics Classification Questions An introduction to classification MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS SHORTCODE SHORT ANSWERS Why do pharmaceutical companies pay for scientists to research and discover new plant species? Answers (Teachers only) Much of modern medicine is built on discoveries in nature. Penicillin is a common antibiotic that we use to combat […]
Questions: What can we do
Year 7 & 8 TOC Our resources Questions MANAGING OUR FUTURE MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS SHORT ANSWERS What is the greenhouse effect and how does it help us? What is a hybrid car and how does it help the environment? Why isn’t an electric car completely emissions-free? Have you done anything to make your home more […]
