Unit: Ecosystem

Classification
of living things
Why do we need to classify
living things?
 There are over 1.4 million different species of
discovered organisms on earth. We classify them
to make studying them easier.
 Organisms are divided into five large groups
called kingdoms.
 kingdoms

animals plants Bacteria fungi protoctists

Animals
Plants
Bacteria
Fungi
Protoctists
 We still find that in each group there may be organisms that
are very different such as ants and
giraffes in the animal kingdom.
 That is why each kingdom is divides into smaller groups called
phyla (singular: phylum).
 Each phylum is divided into several classes, then a class is
divide into orders, then family, then genus and finally the
smallest group is called species.
 Kingdom>phylum>class>order>family>genus>species.

 Try to remember them using this sentence:

 King Philip cut oranges for good students.
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Animal kingdom
 Animals are either vertebrates (have a back
bone) or invertebrate (without a back bone).
 Vertebrates are divided into five classes.
 vertebrates

Fis Amphibians Bird

h Reptiles
s
Mammals
 Fish Amphibians Reptiles Birds Mammals

Body covering

Limbs

Ears

Eggs

Other
features
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FROG
Lifecycle

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 Insects Arachnids Crustaceans Myriapods

Body segments

Number of legs

Antenna

Other features

Common features They all have: 1. Segmented bodies 2. Jointed legs 3. A hard exoskeleton
Molting in insects
Other invertebrates
 Annelids
 Nematodes
 Molluscs
Annelids
nematodes
Molluscs
Molluscs
tentacles
Flowering plants
 Monocotyledons
 Dicotyledons
monocotyledons
Dicotyledons
Quiz time:
choose the correct answer in the following
quiz about classification

https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5afda3a6b53914001c330d79/classification
-of-living-things
Written task:
Answer the following questions in you science
notebooks

Q1:How many groups are the living things classified into?

Q2: What is the importance of classification?

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