Webquest: Six Kingdoms
You’ll need EARPHONES. Use your own or check some out before you begin.
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Name ________________________________
Date_______ Per____
Go to the calendar on my website for the link…OR type http://glencoe.mcgrawhill.com/sites/0078617022/student_view0/brainpop_movies.html# into your internet browser.
Now that you are in the Glencoe website, click on the following movies. Watch the movies and then take the
quizzes. Write out the full answer, don’t just write ABCD.
A. Click on Six Kingdoms. (4:27) Watch the movie then take the quiz (1-13). Then answer the concept check (14)!
Quiz – Write out your answer, don’t just give the letter.
1. What are the six kingdoms used for? _______________________________________________________________
2. What are the six kingdoms? ______________________________________________________________________
3. What do archaebacteria have in common? ___________________________________________________________
4. The PHYLOGENY of an organism is ______________________________________________________________
5. What do all fungi have in common? _______________________________________________________________
6. What do all plants have in common? _______________________________________________________________
7. Which of these is the most specific level of classification? ______________________________________________
8. Bacteria are prokaryotic cells. That means they ______________________________________________________
9. Animals are ___________________________________________________________________________________
10. What does classification help us understand? ________________________________________________________
11. Which of these is a member of the fungi kingdom? ____________________________________________________
12. Plant, animal, fungi and protists are eukaryotic. That means their cells ___________________________________
13. The members of this kingdom can survive in extreme environments, _____________________________________
14. Concept Check: What is the difference between a prokaryotic cell and a eukaryotic cell? ________________
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Close that window and go back to the Glencoe website (the list of video links).
B. Click on Bacteria. (4:25) Watch the movie then take the quiz (1-13). Then answer the concept check (14)!
Quiz – Write out your answer, don’t just give the letter.
1. What type of cells are bacteria? ____________________________________________________________________
2. What are the two bacteria kingdoms called? __________________________________________________________
3. What type of bacteria can do photosynthesis? ________________________________________________________
4. Alcohol and hydrogen peroxide are used to clean cuts because ___________________________________________
5. What are the three basic shapes of bacteria? __________________________________________________________
6. Most bacteria is: ________________________________________________________________________________
7. How do bacteria reproduce in most cases? ___________________________________________________________
8. Hair-like flagella help liquid-dwelling bacteria ________________________________________________________
9. What are organisms that use oxygen for respiration? __________________________________________________
10. What are the three groups of archaebacteria? _________________________________________________________
11. How long have bacteria been around? _______________________________________________________________
12. Bacteria cells are about the size of the _________________________________________________ in an animal cell!
13. Archaebacteria only exist in _______________________________________________________________________
14. Concept Check: What is one of the main differences between eubacteria and archaebacteria?(Hint: It has to
do with where they live.) ________________________________________________________________________
Close that window and go back to the Glencoe website.
C. Click on Protists. (1:57) Watch the movie then take the quiz.
Quiz – Write out your answer, don’t just give the letter.
1. What type of organism is a protist? ________________________________________________________________
2. All protist cells are _____________________________________________________________________________
3. “Eukaryotic” means _____________________________________________________________________________
4. Protists can be plant-like, ________________________________________________________________________
5. Which type of protists are algae? __________________________________________________________________
6. Where do algae make their own food? ______________________________________________________________
7. What color are chloroplasts? _____________________________________________________________________
8. There are six types of plant-like protists and four types of ______________________________________________
9. What are flagella? ______________________________________________________________________________
10. What are animal-like protists called? _______________________________________________________________
11. How are protozoans divided into groups? ___________________________________________________________
12. Many protists are harmless, but some cause serious health problems for __________________________________
13. What is a parasite? _____________________________________________________________________________
Close that window and go back to the Glencoe website.
The Animal Kingdom has two groups within it – invertabrates and vertebrates. The next two movies introduce them.
D. Click on Invertebrates. (2:58) Watch the movie then take the quiz.
Quiz – Write out your answer, don’t just give the letter.
1. Which of these is NOT an animal group? ___________________________________________________________
2. Animals with backbones are called _________________________________________________________________
3. Animals without backbones are called ______________________________________________________________
4. Leeches are parasites who _________________________________________________________________. Yuck!
5. What percentage of Earth’s animals are invertebrates? ________________________________________________
6. Which of these animals is an invertebrate? __________________________________________________________
7. Which invertebrate phylum includes snails? _________________________________________________________
8. Christmas Tree Worms _____________________________________ and look like tiny, colorful Christmas trees!
9. What are the three types of invertebrate body symmetry? ______________________________________________
10. Why is it important to know an invertebrate’s body symmetry? _________________________________________
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11. What is an example of an animal with asymmetric symmetry? __________________________________________
12. Segmented _________________________ are also known as annelids.
13. There are more types of these than any other segmented worm. _________________________________________
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E. Click on Vertebrates. (3:27) Watch the movie then take the quiz.
Quiz – Write out your answer, don’t just give the letter.
1. What do vertebrates have that invertebrates don’t? ___________________________________________________
2. An interior skeleton is called an ___________________________________________________________________
3. Which of these animals does not have an endoskeleton? _______________________________________________
4. Pets like dogs, cats, lizards, fish, and parrots are all ____________________________! Pet slugs are invertebrates.
5. A humpback whale is ___________________________________________________________________________
6. What is true of an ectothermic animal? _____________________________________________________________
7. What is true of an endothermic animal? ____________________________________________________________
8. The duck-billed platypus is one of the few mammals that ______________________________________________!
9. What makes up the largest number of vertebrates? ___________________________________________________
10. Where do amphibians live? ______________________________________________________________________
11. Which of these animals is not a reptile? _____________________________________________________________
12. You are the very model of a modern endothermic mammalian __________________________________________!
13. What do all mammals have in common? ____________________________________________________________
Close that window and go back to the Glencoe website.
F. Click on a video of your choice: Protozoa or Plants. In the space below, write what video you watched and 3 things you
learned. Video Name: ____________________________ What I learned:
G. Close the Glencoe website. Go to Mrs. Quist’s homepage and click on “Fun 7th Grade Websites.” Click on one of those
videos or links until you find something you are interested in watching or doing. In the space below, write what video or
interactive you did and 3 things that you learned. Website/Video Name: ___________________ What I learned:
H. If you have extra time, then you may browse more educational websites and videos from my webpage. Learn about cells
and other living things! Write below the things that you learned. 