Everything Life Sciences Grade 10

CHAPTER 10 Biodiversity and classification 10.1 Overview 294 10.2 Biodiversity 294 10.3 Classification schemes 297 10.4 Five kin ...

10 Biodiversity and classification 10.1 Overview Introduction DUMMY ‘Biodiversity is the greatest treasure we have. Its diminish ...

attempt to understand it. Biodiversity varies widely across the Earth, depending on tempera- ture, rainfall, soils, geography an ...

Life form Diversity and threatened species Plants More than 20 300 species of flowering plants occur in South Africa. One of the ...

Most of the diverse species found in South Africa areendemic or indigenousto the country. Indigenousmeans that these species or ...

Classification can be a tricky business. Problems arise when something can be classified to greater detail or when an object or ...

FACT WATCH:a video about Carolus Linnaeus See video: SHORTCODEat http://www.everythingscience.co.za A way to remember it is ”Kwa ...

Figure 10.2: Aristotle (384–322 BC) devised one of the earliest classification schemes. Figure 10.3: Carl Linnaeus later develop ...

organism a two part scientific name -genus(plural - ”genera”) andspecies(plural - ”species”) names. The genus and species names ...

The scientific name of our human race isHomo sapiens sapiens. We are the only surviving members of the genusHomo— other more anc ...

FACT WATCH:A video showing a brief summary of the five kingdoms See video: SHORTCODEat http://www.everythingscience.co.za FACT B ...

Figure 10.7: Euglenaan example of a protist. Euglena showing its chloroplasts. Figure 10.8: A collection of the different types ...

FACT A TED video on the many uses of Fungi See video: SHORTCODEat http://www.everythingscience.co.za FACT Sir Alexander Fleming ...

Kingdom Animalia Figure 10.12: The diversity of the animal kingdom. Members of the animal kingdom are eukaryotic and multicellul ...

Figure 10.14: Sponge. Figure 10.15: Image of grasshopper Figure 10.16: Lion. Chapter 10. Biodiversity and classification 307 ...

Activity: Optional activity: to investigate examples of life forms from each kingdom Aim: To investigate examples from each king ...

A B C D E F G H I J K L Instructions: Study the organisms in the table of specimens provided to you. Use the dichotomous key to ...

Characteristic Instruction 1a 1b Arthropod has eight legs Arthropod does not have 8 legs go2 (Arachnids) go 4 2a 2b Arachnid has ...

c) Robert Whittaker d) Carolus Linnaeus The following example is the scientific name of a lion: Panthera leo. The first part of ...

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