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Classifying Plants and Animals
Classifying Plants and Animals
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Science
4th Grade
05/08/2009

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How do scientists know which kingdom to place a living thing into?
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They look at how many cells the living thing has, where it lives, and how it gets its food.
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Which kingdom lives on land and must get its food from other living or nonliving things?
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fungi
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Which kingdom uses the sun's energy to make their own food?
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plants
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An organism's scientific name is made up of its...
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genus and species
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Vascular plants transport water and nutrients...
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through tubes that connect the leaves, stems, and roots.
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Examples of some nonvascular plants are...
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hornworts, liverworts, and mosses.
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Plants can make new plants or reproduce by...
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producing seeds or using spores.
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Pine trees make seeds, but do not have flowers. They are called...
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conifers.
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Why would a scientist classify an animal as a vertebrate?
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It has a backbone.
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Laying eggs, eggs hatching, babies finding food, and reproducing are all part of the garden brown snail's...
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life cycle.
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An inherited trait of an animal might be...
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having brown fur like the animal's parents.
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Migration and hibernation are behaviors that are...
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part of an animal's instinct.
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A bear must learn what from its parents?
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How to catch fish.
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A marking on a butterfly that scares away predators is an example of...
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an adaptation.
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