The Five Kingdoms of Classification

Kingdom Animalia

Examples: insects, birds, fish, worms, jellyfish.

Traits: multicellular, feed off of living things.

Kingdom Plantae

Examples: mosses, trees, flowers.

Traits: stationary (is not portable, attached to the ground), breathes carbon dioxide, breathes out oxygen.

Four main groups of plants:

-Non-vascular plants (mosses, hornworts, liverworts)

-ferns

-conifers

-flowering plants

Protista

Examples: algae, paramecia

Traits: most are unicellular, contain a nucleus.

Monera

Examples: bacteria

Traits: are unicellular, have the most basic cell structure.

Fungi

Examples: yeast, mushrooms

Traits: live off of other living things, usually multicellular.