Model answers of the final practice pack
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a) skeleton
b) Support
c) Carnivores
d) Ticks next to: Respire and reproduce
Note: Eating is not a life process because plants don’t eat. They make their own food. They show nutrition but not eating.
Breathing is not a life process. Respiration is the name of the life process and it means getting ENERGY from food or turning food to ENERGY.
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a)Mammals: ticks next to backbone and hairy skin
Fish: ticks next to scales and backbone
Bird: ticks next to feathers and backbone
Reptile: ticks next to Scales and backbone
Note: All vertebrates have a backbone inside their bodies
b)
Feature / Function1 / Hump / Stores food/ fat
2 / Long eyelashes / To protect its eyes from the sand
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a)Ocean
b)Streamlined body
Fins
c)Kelp small fish seal killer whale
Note: one mark is given to the order of the organisms and the other mark is given for the DIRECTION of the arrow
d)Kelp
Note: the producer is the first organism in the food chain. It is usually a plant. All other organisms are consumers.
e)Predator and consumer underlined
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1-B
2-A
3-B
4-A
5-C
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How many consumers are there? …..4……
Name the predator of the snake …….hawk……..
Missing life processes: Growth and excretion
What should a habitat provide? 1- Food and water 2- Shelter
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a)They eat seaweed
b)Crab and seal
c)Prey
What does the food chain tell you?
Fist box ticked : Caterpillars are food for blue tits
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a)Grass
b)Predator: fox
Prey: rabbit
c)From the sun
What is a habitat?
Last box ticked: where they live
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a)Producer
b)Predator
c)Plant caterpillar bird cat
Note: one mark is given to the order of the organisms and the other is for the direction of the arrow
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Q2: a) The question asks for either muscle or bone and NOT the names of the muscles
A: muscle
B: bone
C: muscle
D: Bone
E: Bone
b)Muscle A CONTACTS to bend the arm
c)Join bones to muscle
Q3:
To bend the arm: the biceps muscle contracts [shortens] and the triceps relax [lengthen]
To straighten the arm: the triceps contract [shortens] and the biceps relax [lengthen]
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a)Skull
Ribcage
b)Contract [and shorten]
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a)Muscle
b)On the diagram on the left: biceps ……contract………
Triceps ……..relax………
Diagram on the right side: biceps ………….relax…………
Triceps……..contract………..
Which habitat is the animal adapted to:
In the soil
Explanation: the organism has a brown colored skin, which is the same color as the soil to help in camouflage.
Moist skin through which it respires because the soil might be wet.
The organism has a pointed head to help it move through the soil particles
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a)Grow
b)It needs food
c)Reproduction
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Shape of leaves
Explanation: the age or height of the tree can’t be known from the pictures.
Every plant shown has a different number of leaves so they can’t be sorted into 2 groups
They can be sorted by shape into 2 groups. The upper ones have the same shape and the lower ones have the same shape.
Table:
All boxes should be ticked because all plants and animals show the life processes.
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Animal A: Barn owl
Animal B: Long-eared bat
Animal C: Short-eared owl
Animal D: Horseshoe bat