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In biology, kingdom (Latin: regnum, plural regna) is the second highest taxonomic rank, just below domain. Kingdoms are divided into smaller groups called phyla. Traditionally, some textbooks from the United States used a system of six kingdoms (Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, Archaea/Archaeabacteria, and Bacteria/Eubacteria) while textbooks in Great Britain, India, Australia, Latin America and other countries used five kingdoms (Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista and Monera). Some recent classifications based on modern cladistics have explicitly abandoned the term "kingdom", noting that the traditional kingdoms are not monophyletic, i.e., do not consist of all the descendants of a common ancestor.

When Carolus Linnaeus introduced the rank-based system of nomenclature into biology in 1735, the highest rank was given the name "kingdom" and was followed by four other main or principal ranks: class, order, genus and species. Later two further main ranks were introduced, making the sequence kingdom, phylum or division, class, order, family, genus and species. In the 1960s a rank was introduced above kingdom, namely domain (or empire), so that kingdom is no longer the highest rank.

Prefixes can be added so "subkingdom" ("subregnum") and "infrakingdom" (also known as "infraregnum") are the two ranks immediately below kingdom. Superkingdom may be considered as an equivalent of domain or empire or as an independent rank between kingdom and domain or subdomain. In some classification systems the additional rank "branch" (Latin: "ramus") can be inserted between subkingdom and infrakingdom (e.g. Protostomia and Deuterostomia in the classification of Cavalier-Smith).
1. Which rank is this article about?
2. What is above it?
3. And below it?
4. How many kingdoms does the US recognize?
5. And elsewhere?
6. How many kingdoms do they agree on?
7. Which ones are those?
8. What kingdoms does the US have that the others don't?
9. And which ones do others have that the US doesn't?
10. Who created this system?
11. When?
12. What science is this part of?
13. Was kingdom the highest rank at first?
14. Is it still?
15. Why not?
16. What's another name for domain?
17. Originally how many ranks were below kingdom?
18. What were they?
19. Is it still like that?
20. What happened?

Numbered answers:
1. Kingdom
2. domain
3. phyla
4. Six
5. Five
6. Four
7. Animalia, Plantae, Fungi and Protista
8. Archaea/Archaeabacteria, and Bacteria/Eubacteria
9. Monera
10. Carolus Linnaeus
11. 1735
12. biology
13. yes
14. no
15. in the 1960s a rank was introduced above kingdom
16. empire
17. four
18. class, order, genus and species
19. no
20. later, 2 other ranks were introduced

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"We're going to move," Jimmy said to Mr. James,her teacher, with tears in her eyes. "Dad lost his job and now we don't have enough money to live in our house." Pam was walking by and just heard Jimmy's talk with Mr.James. In the lunchroom Pam met Carol and said, "I've got something to tell you about Jimmy." As she started to tell Carol about Jimmy's dad, several other classmates stopped to listen. Pam felt bad telling what she had heard but she went on anyway. After school, Pam saw some of her classmates talking to Jimmy. "Where does your dad work?" one of the boys asked. Jimmy's face turned red. She left without answering. Pam felt terrible, because she didn't mean to hurt Jimmy. And she hadn't thought that some of the classmates would make jokes and laugh at Jimmy about her father's losing the job. Pam didn't know what she could do to help Jimmy.
1. Who was mobing
2. Why?
3. who did his teacher tell?
4. Who was the girl who overheard?
5. Who did Pam tell?
6. what did a boy ask Jimmy?
7. What did Jimmy feel like after that?
8. was there anyway Pam could help Jimmy
9. Where did Pam talk to Caro

Numbered answers:
1. Jimmy
2. his dad lost his job
3. no one
4. Pam
5. Carol
6. "Where does your dad work?"
7. embarrassed
8. no
9. In the lunchroom

Question:
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It was Saturday afternoon and Andrew was bored. He had been watching TV all day. He told his dad, "There's nothing to do!" Andrew's dad said, "I think the newspaper is here. Maybe we can find an idea in the newspaper." Andrew looked outside the window and saw the newspaper by the door. On the front was a picture of an elephant. He picked up the newspaper and brought it to his dad. Andrew and his dad read the story. The circus was in town! Andrew had never been to the circus. He asked his dad, "Can we go?" "Yes, we can,' Andrew's dad said, 'but first you need to feed your goldfish." Andrew fed his goldfish some goldfish food. He promised to bring it some peanuts from the circus for later. Andrew and his dad went to the circus. The people and animals at the circus did lots of tricks. The elephant even went down a slide! Andrew and his dad ate lots of peanuts. There weren't any peanuts left to bring home to the goldfish. Andrew and his dad had a lot of fun at the circus.
1. What day was it?
2. Night time?
3. What time of day?
4. What was Timmy doing?
Numbered answers:
1. Saturday
2. no
3. afternoon
4. He had been watching TV all day