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 […]
Indigenous Science: Classification (WIP)
Year 7 & 8 TOC Indigenous Science Classification Classification (taxonomy) is the practice of defining and naming groups of living and non-living things, based on their shared characteristics. We use the taxonomy system created by Carl Linneaus to help us make sense of all the organisms on Earth. Linnean Taxonomy In Linnean taxonomy, organisms are […]
Categorising Plants
Year 7 & 8 Topics Classification Organising Plants Plants belong to the kingdom Plantae and are arguably one of the most important organisms on Earth! Without them life wouldn’t exist as we know it. In the Amazon alone, there are roughly 80,000 plant species. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN? What are some differences between plants? What […]
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 […]
What are species
Year 7 & 8 Topics Classification What are species? There are roughly 8.7 million species on our planet, but, what does that mean? WHAT WILL YOU LEARN? What are species? What happens with different species breed? What are examples of crossed species. Species Organisms in the same species group can breed with each other and […]
Scientific Names and Linnaean Taxonomy
Year 7 & 8 Topics Classification Scientific Names and Linnaean Taxonomy Think about your home. If you were talking to someone in another country, and explaining to them where your house was, you’d first start with the country, state, suburb, street and number. Each level becomes more specific until you eventually find your house. Classification […]
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, […]
