Wikijunior:Biology/Kingdoms

Kingdoms

When we look at living things we divide them up into groups and give the groups names. This is called classification.

Living things are classified into groups of different sizes. The biggest groups contain almost everything. The smallest groups have only a few types of living things in them.

The groups are, from large to small:

Domain

Kingdom

Phylum

Class

Order

Family

Genus

Species

The domains are Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya, but most people still find it easiest to divide things by kingdom.

The five kingdoms are:

Archaea

Bacteria

Protista

Animalia (Animals)

Plantae (Plants)

Fungi (Funguses and mushrooms)