<p>Name ______Reading a Classification Table Practice</p><p>The table below shows the complete classification of several species of animals. Use the table to answer the questions that follow.</p><p>Organism House cat Red Fox Dog Wolf Gopher Fly</p><p>Kingdom Animalia Animalia Animalia Animalia Animalia Animalia</p><p>Phylum Chordata Chordata Chordata Chordata Chordata Arthropoda</p><p>Class Mammalia Mammalia Mammalia Mammalia Mammalia Insecta</p><p>Order Carnivora Carnivora Carnivora Carnivora Rodentia Diptera</p><p>Family Felidae Canidae Canidae Canidae Geomyidae Muscidae</p><p>Genus Felis Vulpes Canis Canis Thomomys Musca</p><p>Species domesticus fulva familiaris lupus bottae domestica</p><p>1. What is the scientific name for the house cat?</p><p>2. What is the scientific name for the gopher?</p><p>3. What is the scientific name for the red fox?</p><p>4. What kind of animal is Vulpes velox? How do you know?</p><p>5. What is the complete classification of Vulpes fulva?</p><p>6. What is the complete classification of Vulpes velox?</p><p>7. If an animal is in the genus Musca, what CLASS would it have to be in?</p><p>8. If an animal is in the family Canidae, what ORDER would it have to be in? What CLASS?</p><p>9. From the table, which two animals are most closely related? Explain.</p><p>10. At what classification level does the evolutionary relationship between gophers and house cats diverge?</p><p>11. How does the table indicate that a dog is more closely related to a red fox than to a house cat?</p>