Six

Kingdoms

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www.ric.edu/faculty/ptiskus/six_kingdoms/

What are the six kingdoms?
1. 2. 3.

4. 5. 6.

How are organisms placed into kingdoms?
7. ________________ type

8. Ability to make ______________

9. Number of _________________

What are the three types of plants in the plant kingdom?
10. ______________________

11._______________________

12._______________________

Plants are-
13. ____________________________________

14. consists of complex _______________________

15. _____________________________- make their own food.

16. How many species of plants are there? _______________________

17. Plants range from tiny green __________________ to giant trees.

18. Without _____________________, life on Earth would not exist.

19. Plants feed all the __________________________ which are organisms that eat other organisms
on Earth.

20. The _______________________ kingdom is the largest kingdom with over
21._________________________ known species.

22.Animals are made of ________________________ cells and are
________________________________________________.

23. Archaebacteria are found in ____________________ environments such as

24._______________________and

25. _____________________vents under conditions with no oxygen or highly

26. ____________________environments.

27. Eubacteria are __________________& ________________. Most _______________ are in the
Eubacteria kingdom. They are the kinds found ___________________!

28. Most Eubacteria are ________________________; however, some such as
__________________________________ can give you strep.


29. Bacteria are found almost ___________________.

30. Bacteria cannot be seen without a _____________________,

Look these up!
What are the three shapes of bacteria?
31. 32. 33.

34. Biologists think that these were the ____________________ organisms on Earth.

35. Most bacteria are in the _____________________________ kingdom.

36. Bacteria reproduce ____________________ by splitting themselves in half in a process called

37._______________________ ____________________.

38. Mushrooms, mold and __________________________ are all examples of organisms in the
kingdom fungi.

39. Fungi are__________________________ and consist of many cells.

40. Fungi can NOT make their own food, so they get food from parts of plants that are
______________________ in the soil.

41. Some fungi can ______________________ you!

42. Slime molds and _______________________ are protists.

43. Protists include all microscopic organisms that are NOT __________, ___________________,
_________________ or _________________.

44. ___________________________, ______________________, and __________________________ are three
types of protists.

45. Protists are _____________________, but they have _______________ cells.