Scientific Classification
Across
- 3. a scientist that studies bugs
- 5. taking time to notice the details and record the unique characteristics of something
- 8. after the discovering of organisms called Archaea, this was proposed by some scientists as a category even more general than kingdoms
- 9. the language used for scientific classification
- 10. the second layer of the scientific classification system
- 11. the lowest or most specific level of the scientific classification system
- 12. the next to lowest level of the scientific classification system
- 13. a familiar name given to a living thing
Down
- 1. recognized by most scientists as the top or first level in the scientific classification system
- 2. the system biologist use to sort organisms into groups (2 words)
- 4. the approximate number of insects that have been named so far
- 6. in this naming system, every organism's name has two parts
- 7. a yellowish-brown substance formed from hardened tree sap that may preserve insects trapped with in it