Transcript Taxonomy Jeopardy

How to Play
Your team chooses the question.
Every team answers on a white board
in the form a question (What is…)
 Those with the correct answer get the
points.
 Discuss quietly- you don’t want other
teams to overhear.
 End with a final jeopardy 
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Jeopardy
Relationships Cladograms
Biomes
Classifying
Misc.
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Final Jeopardy
Relationships - $100
At which level do animal A and
C separate?
Animal A
Animal B
Animal C
Kingdom
Animalia
Animalia
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Chordata
Chordata
Class
Mammalia
Aves
Aves
Order
Primates
Passeriformes
Passeriformes
Family
Pongidae
Fringillidae
Fringillidae
Genus
Pan
troglodytes
Spizella
passerina
Serinus
Canarius
Species
Class (Mammal vs Aves)
Relationships - $200
Which of the two organisms are
most closely related?
Animal A
Animal B
Animal C
Kingdom
Animalia
Animalia
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Chordata
Chordata
Class
Mammalia
Aves
Aves
Order
Primates
Passeriformes
Passeriformes
Family
Pongidae
Fringillidae
Fringillidae
Genus
Pan
troglodytes
Spizella
passerina
Serinus
Canarius
Species
Animal B & C
Relationships - $300
At which level (KPCOFGS) are
species most closely related?
GENUS
Relationships - $400
Write the taxonomic levels in
order from largest to smallest.
Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order,
Family, Genus, Species
Relationships - $500
 In
which taxonomic level do
we find Animalia, Protista,
Fungi & Plantae?
Kingdom
Cladograms - $100
What separates sharks from
salamanders?
LUNGS
Cladograms - $200
What traits do tigers NOT have
(must have all for points)?
Lack of tail & bipedalism
Cladograms - $300
Which organisms are most closely related
to lizards?
Salamanders or tigers
Cladograms - $400
To which organism is the gorilla
least closely related?
Lamprey (farthest away)
Cladograms - $500
Where would we place a large mouth
bass on this cladogram? Explain.
Somewhere between the lamprey
or shark- has jaws but no lungs.
Biomes - $100
 Which
biome has wet and dry
seasons and includes prairies
and the savannah?
GRASSLANDS
Biomes - $200
 Explain
2 differences
between the tundra and the
taiga.
 Taiga-
All coniferous trees; below
the tundra
 Tundra- No trees; permafrost,
little biodiversity, northernmost
biome; low rainfall
Biomes - $300
How do we classify biomes
(give at least 2 ways)?
Climate
& soil
Biomes - $400
 Correctly
identify the 3 biomes based on
the descriptions below:
– A. Freezes in winter, trees that lose leaves
every fall, where we live
– B. Lowest average rainfall, hot days and
cold nights, found often in Africa
– C. Highest biodiversity/rainfall, neat the
equator
A. Deciduous Forest
C. Tropical Rainforest
B. Desert
Biomes - $500
Rearrange the following biomes in order from the
equator to the North Pole:
Taiga
Deciduous Forest
Tundra
Tropical Rainforest
Desert
Trop. Rainforest, Desert, Decid. Forest
Taiga, Tundra
Classifying - $100
What are the three
domains of life?
Eukarya, Archaea, Bacteria
Classifying - $200
Describe which domains are
unicellular and which are
multicellular.
Unicellular= bacteria & archaea
Multicellular= eukarya (most)
Classifying - $300
List the 4 kingdoms of
Eukarya.
Plantae
Fungi
Animalia
Protista
Classifying - $400
Explain the major difference
between Archaea & Bacteria.
Archaea live in extreme
environments while Bacteria
live almost anywhere.
Classifying - $500
Identify Bird X.
PLATYSPIZA
Misc - $100
What is the term for the naming
system used by scientists?
Binomial Nomenclature
Misc - $200
What comes first in binomial
nomenclature- species or
genus?
GENUS
Misc - $300
Correct this scientific name:
nycticebus bancanus
Nycticebus bancanus
Capitalize first letter of
genus.
Italicized or underlined.
Misc - $400
Identify Bird W.
GEOSPIZA.
Misc - $500
Why is a unique scientific
naming system necessary
for organisms?
To ensure that scientists know
which organism they are
discussing despite differences
in common names.
Final Jeopardy
In what Domain would we
find Amoebus proteus?
Eukarya