Unit 4 - Kingdoms of Life

Living vs. Nonliving

• Look at this environment to pick which things are living (biotic) and nonliving (abiotic)

Organism - Any living thing

Examples of organisms

Cells

• Introduction to cells
• Details about cells.
• The Whacky Basics!
• Interactive Plant and Animal
• See inside a cell!
• Cell Game

Using a microscope

• Interactive slides
• Virtual Microscope Lab

Single-celled organism - below is a picture of one

Example

Multicellular organism - below is an image of a human's red blood cells.

Red Blood Cells

Classification - This is the way that scientists have organized animals to see how they are similar and different.

• If you have an interest in animals and classifications, go here to quiz yourself!
• Play Animal Classification Hangman !

King Philip Came Over For Good Soup

*Below is a fun way to remember the way we classify and each example shows you where humans fit it!* King = Kingdom (the biggest group, example: Animalia)Philip = Phylum (example: Chordata)Came = Class (example: Mammalia)Over = Order (example: Primates)For = Family (example: Hominidae)Good = Genus (example: Homininae)Soup = Species (the smallest group)