WHAT ARE THE FIVE KINGDOMS



WHAT ARE THE FIVE KINGDOMS?

Scientists use criteria for classification to organise living things into groups.

Classification enables them to compare different living things.

Scientists classify things into five kingdoms by three main criteria: type of cells, how the cells are grouped, and nutrition.

|Monera kingdom |Protoctist kingdom |Fungi kingdom |

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|Contains unicellular, prokaryotic organisms. |Contains unicellular and multicellular living things. They are |Contains unicellular and multi- |

|They may be autotrophic or heterotrophic. |all eukaryotes. They have no tissues. They may be utotrophic or |Cellular living things. They are eukaryotes. |

|Bacteria and cyanobacteria. |heterotrophic. |They have no tissues. They are heterotrophyc. |

| |Protozoa, algae. |Yeats, moulds, mushrooms. |

|Plant kingdom |Animal kingdom |

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|Contains multicellular eukaryotes. They have tissues. They |Contains multicellular eukaryotes. They have tissues. They are |

|are autotrophic. |heterotrophic. |

|Mosses, ferns, flowering plants. |Animal: may be invertebrate or vertebrate. |

Activities

1.Copy and complete the table to describe the five kingdoms.

|Kingdom |Type of cells |Tissues |Autotrophic/Heterotrophic |

|Monera |Prokaryotic | | |

|Protoctist | |No tissues | |

|Fungi |Eukariotic | |Heterotrophic |

|Plant | | | |

|Animal | |They have tissues | |

2. What common characteristic have animals and plants?

3. Which kingdoms have organisms with autotrophic nutrition.

4. What are the similitudes between Fungi kingdom and Animal kingdom related to the type of nutrition?

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