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Classification Pre-test

Relax!! This is a "pre-test".  Answer each question the best you can.  For each question choose the best answer and place it on the line to the left of the question.

___1. Which of the following is not a reason to classify organisms?
          a. to learn how they are related to other organisms.
          b. to help make sense of our world.
          c. to learn more about the organisms. .
          d. to learn their names in other languages.      

___2. Which best defines classification?
          a. the time between fertilization and birth.
          b. the sorting of organisms into groups based on similarities and differences.
          c. the process by which animals get their food.
          d. the process by which DNA makes a copy of itself.

____3. Where in our world does classification occur?
          a. at the school library.
          b. at the grocery store.
          c. in a scientific lab.
          d. all of the above.

____4. Name the scientist who developed the modern system of classification.
          a. Charles Darwin
          b. Isaac Newton
          c. Carolus Linneaus
          d. Albert Einstein

____5. Which is the largest grouping of related organisms?
          a. family
          b. species
          c. phylum
          d. kingdom

____6. Which is the smallest group of related organisms?
         a. family
         b. species
         c. phylum
         d. kingdom

____7. Which scientific name is written correctly?
        a. Canis familiaris
        b. Canis familiaris
        c. Canis Familiaris
        d. canisfamiliaris

____8. Which is the proper order of classification?
        a. Family, Order, Species, Genus, Kingdom, Class, Phylum
        b. Order, Species, Kingdom, Phylum, Family, Class, Genus
        c. Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
        d. Species, Family, Order, Phylum, Kingdom, Class, Genus

____9. What parts of an organism's classification make up their scientific name?
       a. Kingdom and phylum
       b. Order and class
       c. Genus and species
       d. Family and class

____10. The study of classifying or grouping organisms, both living and fossils is
          called:
         a. organization
         b. taxonomy
         c. genetics
         d. biology

____11. A ___________________ is a scientist who uses fossils to reconstruct
              the history of life millions of years before humans existed.
          a. geologist
          b. botanist
          c. fossilologist
          d. paleontologist

____12. A branching key is a:
          a. a tool used to organize the relationships between organisms based on
             similarities and differences.
          b. tool to open up the knot holes found on trees.
          c. a tool used to sequence the bases found on a DNA molecule.
          d. another name for a dichtomous key.

____13. A (n)_______________ is a special guide developed by taxonomist to
           aid in identifying unknown organism by answering a series of yes and no
           questions.
           a. encyclopedia
           b. microscope
           c. dichotomous key
           d. cladogram

____14. Which of the following is not a Kingdom of living things?
           a. Plant
           b. Animal
           c. Protist
           d. Virus