# 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
:   Animalia (Animals)
:   Plantae (Plants)
:   Fungi (Funguses and
    mushrooms)

