Classification of living organisms: plants and animals
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Choose 6 plants and animals (pictures) from home or the street and group them by a feature of your choice. Which feature did you use?
Free answer: for example plant/animal, habitat or way of feeding.
2
Give one example each of a dicot and a monocot.
Dicot – bean, apple, dandelion; monocot – wheat, maize, tulip.
3
Write the systematic ranks for a cat: say its phylum and class.
Kingdom – animals; phylum – chordates; class – mammals (order – carnivores).
4
Why does moss grow in damp rather than dry hot places? Write your idea.
Moss has no true root; it attaches by rhizoids and takes up water over its whole body, so it needs moisture.