Six-kingdoms-of-life

six kingdoms of life

3. Which term means one-celled? Many-
celled?
multicellular
unicellular
Which term means that the organism
produces its own food? Consumes food?
autotroph
Heterotroph
Research to know the right answers.

4. Autotrophic –
makes its own food
Heterotrophic – gets
nutrients from the
food it consumes

6. •Archaebacteria
•Eubacteria
•Protists
•Fungi
•Plants
•Animals

7. •Oldest form of life
•Singe cell organism (unicellular)
•Found in extreme environments
–Geysers
–Hotsprings
–Volcanic ocean vents

8. Geysers
Hotsprings
Volcanic ocean vents

9. •Second oldest form of life
•Single cell organism (unicellular)
•Most familiar bacteria
–Streptococcus
–Lactobacillus
–Staphylococcus
–Cyanobacteria

10. Streptococcus Pneumoniae
Cyanobacteria, Lake Atitlan

11. Bacteria can cause a wide variety of
diseases, such as strep throat, food
poisoning and the Black Death (bubonic
plague of the Middle Ages)

12. •All microscopic organisms that are not
plants, not animal, not bacteria, and
not fungi.
•Single cell organism (unicellular)
•Protozoa, Amoeba

13. Amoeba proteus
Protozoa

14. •Most are multi-cellular organism
•Mushrooms
•Some are very important to
ecosystems or as food.
•Some cause diseases – athlete’s foot

16. •Second largest kingdom
•Multi-cellular organisms
•Producers (make their own food)
•Without plants life as we know it would
not exist.

18. •Largest kingdom
•Multi-cellular
•Consumers – must eat for energy
•Over 1 million known species