Living Environment

Liv. En. DUE 12/12

Classification project
Things you need in your project:

1. Kingdom name – this is assigned to you by the teacher
2. General characteristics of the organisms in that kingdom – like
how they obtain food, reproduce, whether they move, how many
cells they have, do they have a nucleus, etc.
3. List the phyla (the major ones)
4. Characteristics of the phyla – what makes them different
from each other
5. 10 sample organisms from the kingdom – tiny bit of info about
each one
a. Give scientific name of each and the common name if they
have one
b. Picture of each of your 10 organisms
6. Written report of your information – powerpoint, brochure, etc.
7. References
Extra credit:
8. Taxonomic Key for the 10 organisms
9. Article about one of the organisms
a. Summarize the article
Please note: The information must be written in your own words. Any
information that is cut and pasted from any source is plagiarism. If
your project is plagiarized, you will receive a zero.