🌿 ICSE Class 9 Chapter 8: Five Kingdom Classification – Comprehensive Question Set 🌿
- 1. 🔄 Arrange the following animal grouping categories from the highest to the lowest level::
- Class
- Phylum
- Species
- Genus
- Kingdom
2. ✅ Tick-mark the features that characterize vertebrates:
- Dorsal nerve cord
- Haemoglobin dissolved
- Three or more pairs of limbs
- A tail located behind the anus level
- Dorsal heart
3. 📚 📚 Identify the phylum for the given characteristics:
- Multiple pores acting as water inlets, but lacking a single mouth: ____________________.
- Jointed appendages: __________.
- Body is unsegmented and protected by a hard, calcareous shell: _: __________.
- Locomotion by tube feet: __________.
- Long, cylindrical and unsegmented body: __________.
- Small, flat, unsegmented worms: __________.
4. 🐾 Name the phylum of each of the following invertebrates:
- Leech: __________
- Hydra: __________
- Tapeworm: __________
- Sea cucumber: __________
- Sponge: __________
- Roundworm: __________
- Scorpion: __________
- Slug: __________
- Centipede: __________
- Butterfly: __________
5. 🔗 Match the characteristics in Column I with the respective classes in Column II:.
| Column I (Characteristics) | Column II (Classes) |
| Three chambered heart | Pisces |
| Feathers | |
| Two-chambered heart | Amphibia |
| Eardrum in a pit | |
| Scales | Reptilia |
| External ears | |
| Gills | |
| Moist skin | |
| Horny scales on skin | |
| Homeothermal | Aves |
| Testes in scrotum | Mammalia |
6. 🦎 Mention the class of vertebrates against each:
- Crocodile: __________
- Penguin: __________
- Toad: __________
- Shark: __________
- Whale: __________
- Bat: __________
- House lizard: __________
Multiple Choice Questions 🌟
7. The animals (Kingdom Animalia) are mainly grouped under two categories:
- a) bilaterally symmetrical and radially symmetrical
- b) coelomate and acoelomate
- c) aquatic and terrestrial
- d) vertebrates and invertebrates
8. Which one of the following examples does not come under the particular group?
- a) Mushroom, Yeast, Fern — Fungi
- b) Paramecium, Euglena, Sponge — Protista
- c) Starfish, Roaches, Dogfish — Pisces
- d) Bat, Parrot, Oyster — Vertebrates
9. Which one of the following is an example of a binomial scientific name?
- a) Green alga
- b) Snow leopard
- c) Rana tigrina
- d) China-rose
10. Which one of the following is the correct statement about the respective animal(s)?
- (a) A donkey and a horse should be regarded as the same species because they can mate and produce offspring.
- (b) Donkey and horse belong to two distinct genera..
- c) Mule is a separate species.
- (d) A mule is not classified as either a donkey or a horse.
Very Short Answer Type ✍️
17. Who had introduced the binomial system of naming living beings?
18. Which two characters out of (a)-(e) given below are common to dog, humans, squirrel, bat, camel, and monkey?
- (a) scales on the skin
- (b) wings
- (c) external ears
- (d) give birth to young ones
- (e) a functional tail
19. Match the items in Column I with as many as possible and even repeatedly from Column II.
| Column I | Column II |
| Pine | Fungi |
| Earthworm | Monera |
| Bread mould | Gymnosperm |
| Amoeba | Plantae |
| Moss | |
| Bacteria |
Question Set (20 to 36) Without Answers 🌿🐾
20. What are the group names of the following categories of animals?
- 🦴 (a) Animals with a backbone: __________
- 🐾 (b) Animals with hairy skin: __________
- 🐜 (c) Animals with three pairs of legs: __________
- 🐦 (d) Animals with feathers: __________
21. Which ones of the following animals are invertebrates?
- 🏠 Housefly
- 🐟 Silverfish
- 🐠 Trout
- 🌊 Jellyfish
- 🐋 Whale
- 🐧 Penguin
- 🦎 Lizard
- 🧽 Sponge
22. 🐾 Name three animals from different classes that breathe through lungs but lack external ears (pinnae).
23. 📝 In the list below, underline the term that does not correspond with the given animal:
· 🦠 Amoeba — Contains a nucleus, possesses tentacles, and has a food vacuole.
· 🐟 Fish — Features gills, paired fins, and an ear drum.
· 🐋 Whale — Characterized by gills, mammary glands, and a thick layer of fat beneath the skin.
- · 🐒 Monkey — Has external ears, sweat glands, and a lateral line system.
- 🌊 Hydra — Invertebrata, Cnidaria, Crustacea.
- 🪱 Earthworm — Invertebrata, Annelida, Insecta.
- 🦗 Grasshopper — Wings, trachea, proboscis.
- 🦋 Butterfly — Insecta, Invertebrata, Mollusca.
- 🐦 Pigeon — Feathers, wings, hair.
- 🦇 Bat — Aves, Mammalia, Chordata.
Short Answer Type
24. Name these:
- 🌿 (a) The five kingdoms under the current classification system.
- 🌱 (b) The five major divisions of the plant kingdom (Plantae).
- 🐌 (c) Eight phyla of Invertebrates.
- 🦴 (d) Five classes of Chordata.
🐠 (e) 🐠 Identify the two types of fishes based on their skeletal structures..
25. Define the terms:
- 🌍 (a) Species
- 🪱 (b) Clitellum
- 🦗 (c) Moulting
- 🫁 (d) Diaphragm
- 🌙 (e) Nocturnal animals
26. Write the specific location and function of:
- 🧽 (a) Microscopic spicules or elastic spongin fibre
- 🐙 (b) Tentacles
- 🐌 (c) Parapodium
- 🐟 (d) Fins
- 🪶 (e) Feathers
27. Rearrange the following categories of classification in their proper sequence starting with the highest:
- species, family, genus, class, order, phylum.
28. Rewrite the following scientific names correctly:
- ficus religiosa (peepal)
- zea Mays (maize)
- Bombyx Mori (silk moth)
29. Match the names of animal groups in Column I with the names of animals in Column II.
| Column I (Group) | Column II (Animals) |
| Annelida | Pigeon |
| Porifera | Snake |
| Mollusca | Earthworm |
| Reptilia | Sponge |
| Amphibia | Octopus |
| Pisces | Trout |
30. Which names are left out that do not match and why?
31. Give the scientific names of man, domestic cat, and peepal tree.
32. Why are scientific names of living beings considered better than their common names?
33. Mention any two drawbacks in classifying organisms under the old two kingdom classification.
34. All humans on earth today may differ widely in their facial features, colour, height, etc. Yet, they belong . Give one reason why they are not considered belonging to different species.
35. Give any one difference between each of the following:
- 🦗 (a) Insecta and Arachnida
- 🪱 (b) Flatworm and Roundworm
36. Mention any one major similarity and one major difference in the following pairs of animals:
- 🐞 (a) Insects and Birds
- 🐋 (b) Whales and Fishes
- 🐍 (c) Snakes and Earthworms
- 🦇 (d) Bat and Pigeon
- 🦑 (e) Cuttlefish and Dogfish
- 🦎 (f) Wall lizard and Frog
Long Answer Type 📝
37. Distinguish between the following pairs:
- (a) Invertebrates and vertebrates
- (b) Ectothermal and Homeothermal animals
- (c) Monera and Protista
- (d) Bryophytes and Pteridophytes
- (e) Roundworms and Ringed worms
38. Define and differentiate between cold-blooded and warm-blooded (homeothermal) animals.
