Library Assignment for Diversity of Life

Use one sheet for your animal, and another sheet for your plant. Answers are to be hand-written on this sheet.

1. What is the scientific name of your plant or animal?

2. To which family does it belong? Use the technical name that ends in -idae or -aceae.

3. What is the range (geographical distribution) of your species?

4. Where would you expect to find one of your species? In other words, what habitat?

5. Did you find other common names for your species? What are they?

6. What is the phylum of your species? The botanists sometimes use the term division instead of phylum for plants.

7. What are some diagnostic traits of your species? In other words, how can you distinguish it from its nearest relatives?

8. What is an evolutionary adaptation of your species that helps it survive?

9. Give another interesting fact that you learned about your species.

10. Name the kingdom to which your species belongs. For the animal (not the plant), give also the name of the order to which it belongs.

List below three books you used to get your answers. You may use the internet, but you still must cite three books. For the books, give the title, author(s), year published, city where published, call number, and page(s) where you found some answers.