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Science revision for the first term, Jan 2017
Classifying living things
1. Circle the correct answer:
i) Animals with a backbone are called what?
Carnivores
Herbivores
Invertebrates
Vertebrates
ii) Which of the following animals have a backbone?
Bee
lobster
spider
trout
iii) Which of the following groups is warm blooded?
Amphibians birds
insects
reptiles
iv) Which of the following groups breathe through moist skin and lungs, and need water to breed?
Amphibians Crustaceans
Fish
Reptiles
2. The drawings below show animals that are all vertebrates.
Complete the table to show which vertebrate group each animal belong to. Write two features for each.
Animal
Group it belongs to
Features
3. Read the following and fill in the gaps with words from the box below.
( respiration, yeast, dough, soft, carbon dioxide, flour)
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Bread is made by baking ……………….. which is a mixture of …………………….. of …………………. And water. To make
bread rise, ……………. Can be added to the mixture . It uses nutrients from the flour for ………. And releases
bubbles of …………….. gas. The gas bubbles make the bread ……………….. and spongy.
4. The diagram below shows how some animals can be classified
A platypus is a mammal that lays eggs. It can swim but cannot fly. Which group does the platypus belong to?
A
B
C
D
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Our Bodies
A. Circle the correct answer:
1. The human circulatory system includes the heart, lungs and blood vessels. What is another name for the
circulatory system ?
The nervous system
The digestive system
The respiratory system The circulatory system
2. Which waste product is removed from the by the lungs?
Nitrogen
oxygen
carbon dioxide
urea
3. What enters the blood from the lungs?
Oxygen
acid
carbon dioxide
urea
4. Where does the heart pump oxygenated blood to?
To the brains only
to the lungs only
to the whole body
to the digestive system only
5. Blood delivers oxygen and what else to the cells in your body?
Carbon dioxide
energy
nutrients
kind thoughts
6. Which one of the following is not part of the heart?
Septum
right ventricle
right atrium
left ventilator
7. Which blood vessels carry oxygenated blood?
Arteries
veins
capillaries
all of the above
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8. Which are the thinnest and smallest blood vessels?
Arteries
veins
capillaries
none of the above
9. What is the easiest way to measure your heart rate?
By counting your breaths
by listening to your heartbeats
in 30 seconds
by checking your pulse rate
by seeing how many sit-ups you can do
10. Which of these is not an organ?
Brain
red blood cell
stomach
lungs
11. Which of these organs is part of the digestive system?
Heart eyes
heart
kidneys
12. Which of these organs is not part of the circulatory system?
Heart
brain
lungs
blood vessels
13.Which of these will not help you to keep healthy?
Eating plenty of sweets everyday eating a balanced diet avoiding health risks
exercising everyday
14.Why is smoking a health risk?
It is expensive
it stains your teeth
it makes your clothes smell terrible
it is harmful to the heart and
lungs
15. How does exercise help you to keep healthy?
It makes your heart stronger
It makes your muscles stronger
It helps you to become more flexible
All of the above
B.
Answer the following:
1.What is a balanced diet?................................................................................................................................
2 .Why should we drink lots of water?.............................................................................................................
3. What effect would lots of fizzy drinks have on our bodies?.......................................................................
4. A) What do carbohydrates provide us with? B) Which foods contain carbohydrates?
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5. Give an example of a food that contains protein..............................................................................................
6. What do fruit and vegetables provide us with?...............................................................................................
7. Why do we need to eat some fats?..................................................................................................................
8. What is fibre and which foods provide us with fibre? ..................................................................................
9. What effect would smoking have on our bodies? .......................................................................................
10. Why does our pulse rate increase when we exercise ?...............................................................................
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B. Organs in our bodies have different functions. The table gives some of these functions. Use the numbers
to label the drawing of the body to show the place of each organ.
Number
Function
1
Thinks for the body
2
Pumps blood around the body.
3
Stores food we eat and starts to digest it.
4
Completes the digestion of food
5
Stores waste after digestion
6
Where oxygen gets into the body
Evolution and Inheritance
A. Answer the following:
1) What does the word ‘specimen’ mean? …………………………………………………………………………………………………………
2) What does the word ‘species’ mean?.................................................................................................................
3) What did Darwin observe on the Galapagos Islands?.........................................................................................
4) Where are the Galapagos Islands?.....................................................................................................................
5) What did Darwin notice about the beaks of the Finches? ……………………………………………………………………………..
6) What does the word ‘organism’ mean? ………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
7) Where did Darwin think the organisms came from? ……………………………………………………………………………………..
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8) What does the word offspring mean?................................................................................................................
9) What did Darwin call his theory? …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
10) What do you think ‘survival of the fittest’ means? ……………………………………………………………………………………..
11)According to Darwin's theory of evolution, how do new species evolve?
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12) What is the name for changes in organisms over long periods of time?
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13) Which scientist first proposed the theory of natural selection?
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14) Some characteristics are passed on from parents to their offspring. What is this called?..........................
15a) Which of the dogs below is the offspring of the dogs? Circle the right dog.
15b) Write down four characteristics that the offspring has inherited from its parents.
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16) How are otters adapted for their habitats?
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17) How are seals adapted to living in cold conditions?
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18) Define evolution ........................................................................................................................................
19)When we talk about what a plant or animal looks like,we are talking about its characteristics.
Different animals have different characteristics-it’s how we tell them apart.
i)What is a characteristic?
A place where an organism lives
A feature of an organism
The food an organism eats.
ii)Write down one characteristic that all the cats have in common.
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iii)Write down one characteristic that cats B and C have in common, but that cat D
doesn’t have. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………
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iv) Look at the animals below. Choose one of the animals. Write its letter in the box.
20)Write down one of its characteristic that makes it different to the other animals.
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21)List three main components of natural selection?
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22)Which term describes a trait that increases an individual’s ability to survive in a particular environment?
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23)Which is the most common rock types that fossils can be found?
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24)Name the process of promoting certain traits by breeding members with those traits ? …………………………………
25)Explain 3 conditions necessary for fossilization to take place…………………………………………………………………………..
B. Choose words from this list to complete the sentences below.
(bones
extinct
fossils
muscles
rocks)
In the past some types of animals and plants have died out.
They have become ........................................ .
We know about these animals and plants because we find them as ........................................ .
Sometimes the hard parts of animals such as ........................................ did not decay.
In other cases the bodies of animals and plants were replaced by minerals.
You can still see their shape in ........................................ .
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Scientific enquiry
A.
Circle the correct answer
1.How many variables should you change during an investigation?
One
two
three
four
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2.What do we call the items you will need for your investigation?
Equipment
diagrams
methods
variables
3.In order to get your results, you will need to make observations or do what?
Make a poster
take measurements
draw a graph
take photos
4.Results can be displayed using what?
A table
A graph
A chart
All of the above
5.What should come at the end of an investigation?
A mind map
photos
An answer to a prediction
A message to your teacher
6.What does a 'fair test' mean?
Everyone in the group gets to have a go
Everyone’s ideas are contributed
Only one variable is changed while the rest are kept constant
Each thing that is being tested is treated
fairly
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B. A team of scientists have been working in The UAE and have been finding fossils in bands of limestone. The
drawing shows some of their finds and the rocks that they were found in.
i)Complete the bar chart to show the number of the different fossils in the layers.
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ii)
Which is the most common fossil? …………………………………………………………………….……………..
iii)
Which fossil is a fish? How do you know?...............................................................................
C. This graph shows Jane’s pulse rate.
i)
What is a graph like this called? ……………………………………………….
ii)
Label the axes.
iii)
Which part of the graph shows (A, B or C) when Jane was:
Sitting and playing chess ……………………………………….
Playing tennis
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iv)
At what time did she stop playing tennis? ………………………………………..
v)
What do you think her pulse rate would be if she was walking?..........................
vi)
Why did her pulse rate change when she started to play tennis?
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vii)
What was her pulse rate at 7: 30?..........................................
viii)
When was her pulse rate 82 beats per minute?...........................................................
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