8D End of Unit Test

Name Class Date

1 The drawings show five vertebrode animals.

In the table below write the name of the group to which each animal belongs. The first one has
been done for you.

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D Name of animal Group it belongs to
shark fish

rattlesnake

toad

sparrow

rabbit

[2 marks]

2 The drawings show plants from three different groups. In the table below, write the name of the
group to which each plant belongs. Give one feature of each group that helped you to decide.

group

feature

[3 marks]

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3 Look at the drawing of an earthworm. slimy skin

An earthworm spends most of its time
underground, burrowing through soil. Explain
how it is adapted to livein
this habitat

____________________________________________
pointed head
____________________________________________
bristles
____________________________________________

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D
[1 mark]

4 Look at this food chain: lettuce snail small bird cat

a Give the name of one predator in the food chain and the name of its prey.

Predator ______________________________ Prey ______________________________

[1 mark]

b The lettuces would grow better if there are a lot of birds in the garden. Give the reason for
this.

___________________________________________________________________________________

[1 mark]

c The energy in a food chain originates from the Sun. Explain why all the energy stored in the
lettuces does not end up in the cat.

___________________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________________

[1 mark]

5 Dandelion plants are very common in garden lawns. They are not very common in woodland.
Jason wants to estimate the number of dandelion plants on a lawn.
a Why might dandelion plants not be very common in woodland?

_________________________________________________________________________________

[1 mark]
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b What piece of equipment should Jason use 5m

to sample the dandelions in the lawn on
the right? lo g

_____________________________________

_____________________________________ 5m

[1 mark]

c Jason finds three dandelion plants in a 1m2

sample. Estimate the number of dandelion
plants on the lawn. Show your working.
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D Estimate ___________________________________________________________________________

[1 mark]

d How could Jason make his method more reliable?

_____________________________________________________________________________________

[1 mark]

6 Arctic foxes eat lemmings. The graph shows the populations of foxes and lemmings.
Population

lemmings

Arctic foxes

1980 1981 1982 1983 1984

Years

a Give one possible reason why the population of lemmings decreased so much during 1982.

___________________________________________________________________________________

[1 mark]

b Suggest why the number of Arctic foxes decreased so much during 1983.

___________________________________________________________________________________

[1 mark]
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7 Look at this pond food web for the creatures shown:

perch

small fish water

boatmen

microscopic plants
water fleas tadpoles

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D
a Write down one food chain from this web.

_______________ _______________ _______________ _______________

b Sketch a pyramid of numbers for the chain you have drawn. Label each bar of your pyramid
with the name of the organism at that level.
[1mark]

c Disease suddenly kills all the small fish. Complete the sentence to explain what is likely to
happen to the number of water boatmen.

The number of water boatmen is likely to ___________________ because ___________________

_____________________________________________________________________________________

[1 mark]

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8 Tom set up an experiment over 24 oxygen sensor

hours to measure the amount of
oxygen dissolved in the water in his
fish tank. The temperature of the
water and the amount of oxygen
entering the water remains constant. data logger
Toms results are shown in the table.

Time Oxygen (%) Time Oxygen (%)

Midnight 10 12:00 35
02:00 9 14:00 34

8 04:00
06:00 11
9 16:00
18:00
25
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D 08:00 14 20:00 11
10:00 20 22:00 10

a Plot his results on the graph below and draw a curve of best fit.
40

35

30

25
% oxygen

20

15

10

0
0 02:00 04:00 06:00 08:00 10:00 12:00 14:00 16:00 18:00 20:00 22:00
(midnight) Time (h)

[3 marks]

b At what time was the oxygen at its highest concentration? _____________________________

[1 mark]

c Suggest a reason for this.

_________________________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________________

[1 mark]
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9 Sanjoy owns a large farm in which he grows wheat. He has noticed that in one
field the wheat grows much better in some places than in others.
a Suggest two factors that affect the growth of wheat.

___________________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________________

[1 mark]

b In another field he grows lettuces, which are often eaten by slugs. Usually he sprays the whole
field with pesticles to kill the slugs. He is thinking of installing an automatic system that detects
slugs and only spreads pesticles in areas where slugs have been detected.
Suggest two things that Sanjoy should consider before deciding whether it is cost-effective to 8
install the system. D
___________________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________________

[1 mark]

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