The 5 Scientific Kingdoms

Learning Intention: I can create a model to identify and explain the 5 kingdoms and the characteristics of each. I can include an example for each kingdom.

By: Alison Dilaurentis

Plantae Animalia Fungi Protista Monera

Plantae

• Multicellular, which is a scientific way of saying consists of many cells.
• They can produce own food.
• It gets its green colour from the chlorophyll stored inside their cells.
• Important to every other living thing on Earth.
• Uses sun to produce energy, which is used for the making of oxygen.
• An example of a Plantae would be a tree.

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Here is a leaf that is one of many Plantae organisms.

Photosynthesis

Photosynthesis is the name for the process of plants to make oxygen, the gas us humans need to survive. The energy from the sun is transferred into a Plantae species to create photosynthesis. Which is when a plant absorbs carbon dioxide and mixes it with the chlorophyll that is stored it its stems. Once the chlorophyll is mixed with the carbon dioxide it creates oxygen, which by the way is really important to every life form on Earth.

Animalia

• Multicellular, which is a scientific word for consists of many cells.
• Like us humans and Fungi, those of the Animalia kingdom can not make own food unlike the Plantae and the Protista kingdoms.
• There are so many Animalia species that scientists decided to separate them into groups to make them even easier to understand this classified group.
• These species that are part of the Animalia kingdom are highly adaptable.
• Covers every living, breathing animal on this planet.

A lion is a very adapted animal, it has adapted to eating and hunting meat in which they have made technics to hunt them.

Animalia Kingdom

Since there are a lot of species that fall into place in the Animalia kingdom, scientists separated this kingdom into 5 more groups with the names:

• Echinoderms: which are any sea creature having a radiating arrangement of parts and a body wall stiffened, such as a starfish and sea cucumber.
• Annelids: having the body formed of numerous rings or or rings formed around it, such as a tapeworm.
• Mollusks: having a soft one pieced body and often a shell.
• Arthropods: all those that have jointed legs, or in other words insects.
• Chordates: You would actually know a chordate as a fish. It is an animal that is either vertebrates or one of many closely related invertebrates.

Giraffes are in the Chordate group.

Fungi

• Species in the Fungi kingdom can not make their own food like plants can.
• They are multicellular, which is a scientific word for consists of many cells.
• For a while Fungi was known as a plant but we now know that fungus and plants are very different from each other.
• Fungi species can live anywhere- even in the air.

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These are the cells that

are in fungi.

Fungus

Some people think that fungi is only in mushrooms and blue cheese, well they'd be wrong. You can find fungi in bread, because bread is made with yeast which is a type of fungus that makes bread rise and taste better. Another type of fungi there is would be fungus, some people think that fungus is just another word for fungi but actually there are hundreds of types of fungus out there. There is the fungus that grows between your toes, the fungus that we often find growing on trees in the forests and woods, and many other places that fungus grows.

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Here are the molecules

that are part of the

growth of fungus that you

will see if you look in a

microscope.

Protista

• The Protista kingdom consists of unicellular life forms.
• Can create own food.
• The Protista kingdom is filled with complexed life forms.
• Many appear to be both plant and animal.
• Like plants they are green and can make their own food.

These are amoeba which are one of the many types of Protista life forms.

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Amoeba

Amoebas consists of no more than one cell, they have no specific shape. Most have no hard parts and look like blobs of jelly. But some amoebas build shells for themselves. Amoebas make their bodies to move by going one direction it wishes to travel, then slowly the cell follows. Amoebas can split itself into 2 cells even though as one it is only 1 cell.

This is an amoeba that has separated into 8 cells.

Monera

• The monera kingdom consists of unicellular life forms.
• They are simple in form.
• These cells have no nucleus, or in other words no brain.
• Classified in 2 groups, autotrophs and heterotrophs.
• Those Monera species in the autotrophs group can make their own food.
• Those Monera species in the heterotrophs group can not make their own food.
• Most types of bacteria are placed in the Monera kingdom.

These are some of the examples of some Monera organisms

Monera

Most common types of bacteria are put in the Monera kingdom. Most scientists consider Monera as the oldest life forms on Earth and the ancestors of every other types of life that have evolved for thousands of years.

These are the cells that consists inside of bacteria.

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